{"id":50644,"date":"2016-06-24T16:36:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=50644"},"modified":"2016-06-24T16:36:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:36:40","slug":"reps-want-efcc-icpc-probe-ex-fct-minister-bala-mohammed-aides-land-swap-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/reps-want-efcc-icpc-probe-ex-fct-minister-bala-mohammed-aides-land-swap-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Reps Want EFCC, ICPC To Probe Ex-FCT Minister, Bala Mohammed, Aides, Over Land Swap Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives has mandated the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) to investigate the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Bala Mohammed, in order to unravel how he abused financial regulations\u00a0\u00a0financial regulations in the land swap policy he introduced while in office.<\/p>\n<p>The Lower House also recommended the probe of\u00a0\u00a0the Executive Secretary of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), Engr Adamu Ismaila and the coordinator, Abuja Infrastructure Investment Center (AIIC), Mr Faruk Sani, to ascertain their culpability or otherwise in the abuse of financial regulations and breach of due process in the land swap scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The House took the decision after adopting the report of its committee on the FCT presented by Honourable Herman Hembe (APC, Benue).<\/p>\n<p>The committee, which investigated the matter earlier this month, laid its report on Tuesday, containing 10 recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>The House also mandated relevant security and law enforcement agencies to investigate and track all monies expended outside the laid down financial guidelines for the program, particularly, monies paid to the FCTA Land Swap Programme Account with the FCMB Plc, and the private personal account of Mustafa Usman Kaoje, the Accountant of AIIC and any other official of FCTA and AIIC.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives has mandated the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) to investigate the former Minister of&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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