EFCC recovers N1b property from criminal syndicates, accuses FCT staff members
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has recovered four landed title documents worth over N1 billion from criminal syndicates. The title documents were falsified by a syndicate of land fraudsters in Abuja who allegedly forged the documents, depriving the lawful owners of their property. EFCC’s investigators, working on actionable intelligence, rounded up the fraudsters and recovered the documents for the owners.
The title documents were handed over to their owners by the Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede on Tuesday at the cooperate headquarters of the commission where he accused staff members of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of conniving with the criminal syndicate to perpetrate the crime.
Four victims of the syndicates who regained their title documents from the EFCC are Mr Asinobi Emmanuel Ogbuefi, who regained the Certified True Copy (CTC) of his allocation on Plot 895 Kaura District, Abuja, valued at over N150 million, the family of the late Ambassador Joseph D. Daze regained the title document of Plot 714, Jahi District, Abuja, worth over N400 million, Mr Nuhu Umar regained the CTC of allocation in respect of Plot 625, Guzape District, Abuja, worth over N200 million, while Mr Omar Ali Bintawa regained the Right of Occupancy (RofO) for Plot 1167 Katampe Extension, Abuja, worth N250 million.
At the handing over of the documents to the victims, Olukoyede noted that the recovery of the original title documents was a product of diligent investigation by operatives of the EFCC. He particularly acknowledged the collaborative efforts of officials of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), drawn from FCT’s Department of Land Administration and Abuja Geographic Information System (AGIS).
He said: “Our engagement this afternoon is a demonstration of our commitment to synergise and collaborate with the public as an agency to fight corruption, and financial and economic crimes in Nigeria.
“We are here to let the public know that this commitment is working and that stakeholders are collaborating with us.
“We are here this afternoon to witness the handing over of title documents to victims of financial crimes in Nigeria. This has been going on for a while and we want the public to know that there is a need for us to work together as a nation and as a people to ensure that perpetrators of crimes do not get away with them as well as the proceeds of their crimes.”
While regretting the situation, Olukoyede assured that all land fraudsters in the FCT would be brought to book.
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