Taiye Odewale
Abuja
Senate yesterday declared that it will soon begin a holistic investigation into all issues relating to the concession and privatisation of some government property in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to the tune of N2.7 billion.
This was as it described the entire process as a national disaster and monumental fraud caused by leadership failure.
Against this backdrop, the upper legislative chamber, through its Committee on Federal Capital Territory said it would summon all the key players in the past governments that were responsible for the concession and privatisation of these property to private individuals at very lower rates in the nation’s capital city.
Speaking yesterday during a meeting with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, and the entire leadership of the FCTA , Chairman of the Committee, Dino Melaye ( APC, Kogi West) vowed that the Senate would get to the root of the matter by bringing to book all the major players in the concession and privatisation process.
Melaye, who described the process as leadership failure and national disaster, however, warned that the country could not allow this to continue if Nigeria must grow.
He added that the committee would expose all those involved, “even when it amounts to exhuming corpses if those involved are dead”, notin that “people pay to use Eagle Square, facilities at the International Conference Centre (ICC) and other government investments, yet at the end of the day, there is zero remittance to the government.”
