17th August, 2015
The Federal Government is set to recover all property of government still in possession of officials that served in the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
It was gathered that a Committee whose members include men of security agencies and civil servants has been set up to undertake the task of the recovery of the assets which the ex-government officials are still holding on to over two months after they assumed office.
The Committee, whose members have not been made public, is to identify the assets and recover them as part of the ongoing recovery of resources belonging to government by the Buhari administration.
“That is precisely the case. Even here at the Presidential Villa, there are cars and other property belonging to the government which are yet to be returned. The property belongs to the Nigerian people.
We are not trying to humiliate anyone by asking them to return their cars or houses,” Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, told journalists while confirming the development on Sunday.
He added that the move is part of the design of President Buhari to end the culture of impunity that has been part and parcel of the past administration.
“But change has come. That is why we have to do things differently now. Imagine how much Nigeria will save by retrieving and re-using these government properties instead of purchasing new ones for new government officials,” said Garba.