FEAR OF BUHARI: Jonathan’s Officials Secretly Return Government Properties

According to Leadership, Government officials who served under the administration of former President, Goodluck Jonathan are already heeding the recent directive by President Muhammadu Buhari for them to return some of the government properties they took with them as they left office.

It was learnt that some former top government officials were secretly returning the assets which include: vehicles, generating sets and furniture to the ministries, agencies and even some departments at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa from where they were taken.

Also, those whose families are still occupying government buildings are said to have started asking them to quickly vacate the place on the pretext that they were staying there without their knowledge, after they had returned to their respective states or travelled abroad.

Leadership newspaper also gathered from a top presidency official that some of the past government officials, mostly former President Goodluck Jonathan’s men, had been calling to explain themselves, insisting that some of the property were taken either by their family members or close aides without their consent.

The top presidency official, who pleaded anonymity, however noted that despite the last-minute effort being made by these former officials to save their head from the ongoing probe directed by the president, they would still be made to explain their actions which were tantamount to sharp practices.

According to the source, “Throughout today (yesterday), we have been receiving calls from some of the former aides and officials of government who claim that whatever was still in their possession were taken and were being kept either by their family members or personal assistants.

“Some even claim that they were aware that their family members were still living in government buildings while they were away in their hometowns, or abroad where they are on vacation. But their explanations amount to nothing but medicine after death. Whether they return the property or not, they must face the law because what the president is angry about is the action itself.”

On whether the committee set up to go after the culprits had identified them, he said, “We have the names of most of them on ground already. What the committee is doing at the moment is to ascertain whether due process was followed before they took the property as their personal possessions.

“Once discovered that they did not buy them in line with the monetization process initiated by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, they will still be prosecuted.”

The practice of collecting things from office after tenure did not start with the Jonathan Administration so please make we hear word.It did not start with him and might probably continue even with President Buhari.

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Posted: at 19-08-2015 05:49 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero

full stop , mr probe work and give nigerians what u promise during ur campaigning, not today remove this put hausa fulani and tomorrow probe this govt and that man. mind u 2019 is not far and u may march out before then , there is no more power by gun

Posted: at 19-08-2015 06:29 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Good....Fear of buhari is the beginning of wisdom and zero corruption!

Posted: at 19-08-2015 06:49 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

wat I really need is action, make dem just nail one person, then change has come

Posted: at 19-08-2015 07:04 AM (9 years ago) | Hero

me na action i wan see or hear.
too much i go, i go.

Posted: at 19-08-2015 07:45 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

They jt have to return it. Afterall its not theirs. And who will collect all d ones Obj has confiscated like d natianal library built in his state.

Posted: at 19-08-2015 08:17 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero

good gooder goodest

Posted: at 19-08-2015 10:03 AM (9 years ago) | Grande Master

Stop all these insults. If Baba Buhari is a criminal, please give us proof if not allow him to cleanse the system.

Posted: at 19-08-2015 10:41 AM (9 years ago) | Newbie

Good step taken

Posted: at 19-08-2015 11:14 AM (9 years ago) | Hero