Reps halt sale, concession of FG property within and outside Nigeria.

The House of Representatives adhoc committee on ‘Federal Government  Abandoned Properties’ has ordered that all concessions of federal government properties nationwide be put on hold till further notice.
Similarly, the Committee ordered a halt on sale of federal government property within and outside the country to allow the committee completes its assignment .
Mr. Ademorin Kuye (APC, Lagos), Chairman of the committee gave the order at the second strategic meeting of the Committee on Tuesday. 
He said the order affects the Tafawa Balewa  Square  property, the Lagos International Trade Fair Complex and a host of others.
According to him , “there are surreptitious moves to sell off some of the property by certain elements in a bid to spanner the efforts of the committee.

He said “as a result of the media coverage the general public have been sensitised on the task before us. The successful recovery of these properties will definitely provide the needed funds to cushion the impact of economic crunch this country is facing at this challenging time of COVID 19 pandemic.
” The die is cast. We are therefore soliciting the cooperation of the Ministries, Departments and Agencies concerned to avail us a comprehensive lists of the federal government abandoned properties, be they land, building, aircrafts, ships or goods to enable the Committee discharge its mandate. 
In the same vein, we are equally calling corporate organisations and individuals already occupying and making use of these properties to do the needful by liaising with committee to put necessary machinery in motion to return them to the rightful owner, the federal government.
” We are not oblivious of surreptitious and hurried attempt to dispose those properties as a way of throwing spanner in the works of this committee,” he said.
Recall that the Committee was constituted on Tuesday, 17 March, 2020 with the mandate to investigate the status of such project, identify the cause of the abandonment and proffer solutions by way of recovery, and probably prosecute after conclusion .