The President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government has come under fire from the Labour Party (LP) and the African Action Congress (AAC) for designating N3 billion for the refurbishment of two opulent Abuja houses that were forfeited to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The Federal Capital Territory’s Guzape and Mabushi properties are among the illicitly obtained assets and money laundering proceeds that the EFCC has retrieved.
The Federal Government intends to develop State House complexes out of the reclaimed estates, according to a document obtained by the Punch on Wednesday.
These are some of the specifics of the State House’s 2023 Supplementary Appropriations that were submitted to the National Assembly for approval.
The paper stated that N1.5 billion was set aside for the purchase, remodeling, and restoration of two properties. EFCC lost space at the Mabushi State House Complex.
An additional N1.5 billion was set aside for the purchase, refurbishment, and restoration of two properties. The EFCC gave over its rooms at the Guzape State House Complex.
The National Publicity Secretary for the AAC, Olorunfemi Adeyeye, and the spokesperson for the LP Presidential Campaign Council, Yunusa Tanko, both stated in an interview with the aforementioned publication that the action was evidence that Tinubu’s administration is indifferent to the suffering of the Nigerian people.
“Nigerians must resist this in its entirety,” Tanko stated. “No one should earmark such a huge amount of money for the jamboree in the middle of hunger, poverty, and insecurity.” But we’ve seen this before, anticipated it earlier, and it’s been interplayed.
The Nigerian people must adamantly oppose the Tinubu-led government’s absurd plan to spend N3 billion renovating two houses that were taken from political thieves, according to Adeyeye. Naturally, the aforementioned forfeited properties would have most certainly been retrieved from members of the President’s bourgeois class, be it the Peoples Democratic Party, the All Progressives Congress, or any of their affiliates.
But as we have always stated, this is a great opportunity for Nigerians to take to the streets and demonstrate against all of the government’s anti-people policies, which range from the elimination of fuel subsidies to an increase in tuition fees for all public tertiary institutions, among other things.
