{"id":57596,"date":"2024-12-03T13:58:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=57596"},"modified":"2024-12-03T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T13:58:09","slug":"give-forfeited-abuja-properties-to-civil-servants-doctors-human-rights-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/03\/give-forfeited-abuja-properties-to-civil-servants-doctors-human-rights-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Forfeited Abuja Properties to Civil Servants, Doctors -Human Rights Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Abuja-based Human Rights Lawyer Pelumi Olajengbensi has urged<\/p>\n<p>the federal government to hand over the forfeited estate secured by the anti-graft agency to deserving civil servants.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) secured the final forfeiture of an estate located in the federal capital territory (FCT).<\/p>\n<p>Dele Oyewale, EFCC spokesperson, said the recovery was the agency\u2019s largest since its inception in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The estate sits on 150,500 square metres and contains 753 units of duplexes<\/p>\n<p>The individual who forfeited the property was not mentioned, but Oyewale said it belonged to a \u201cformer top brass of the government\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Olajengbesi described the feat as a milestone in \u201casset recovery\u201d, adding that the EFCC\u2019s intelligence gathering and diligent prosecution are \u201cmost admirable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The human rights lawyer added that forfeited properties should be completed and allocated to deserving doctors to boost morale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a boost for the fight against corruption and asset recovery which is a fulcrum for Nigeria\u2019s anti-graft war,\u201d Olajengbesi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intelligence gathering and diligent prosecution of the EFCC team is most admirable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis successful final forfeiture sends a message to corrupt politicians and their cronies diverting public funds to amass wealth for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EFCC should not auction off the forfeited properties but complete them and hand them over to doctors and other deserving civil servants to encourage them in their service to humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu An Abuja-based Human Rights Lawyer Pelumi Olajengbensi has urged the federal government to hand over the forfeited estate secured by the anti-graft agency to deserving civil servants. On Monday, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) secured the final forfeiture of an estate located in the federal capital territory (FCT). Dele Oyewale, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":57597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57598,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57596\/revisions\/57598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}