{"id":60739,"date":"2025-02-07T13:53:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T13:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60739"},"modified":"2025-02-07T13:53:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T13:53:25","slug":"fct-lands-director-fails-to-appear-before-house-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/07\/fct-lands-director-fails-to-appear-before-house-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Lands Director Fails to Appear Before House Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Director of Lands in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chijioke Nwankwoeze, failed to appear before the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions on Thursday over allegations of land racketeering, money laundering, and false asset declaration.<\/p>\n<p>The petition, filed by the Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency, accused Nwankwoeze of operating private offices involved in illegal land deals.<\/p>\n<p>Despite warnings from Committee Chairman Mike Etaba that the hearing would proceed in his absence, neither Nwankwoeze nor the petitioner attended.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the committee adjourned the hearing to March 18, with Etaba emphasizing the panel\u2019s commitment to ensuring justice based on presented facts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The Director of Lands in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chijioke Nwankwoeze, failed to appear before the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions on Thursday over allegations of land racketeering, money laundering, and false asset declaration. The petition, filed by the Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency, accused Nwankwoeze of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":60740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60739","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60741,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60739\/revisions\/60741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}