FG Set To Seize Ekeremadu’s 22 Properties

The Federal Government is set to seize the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu’s alleged undeclared assets.

The government revealed this on Wednesday in an appeal to the Abuja Federal High Court, asking it to seize 22 properties allegedly belonging to Ekweremadu and which were not included in his assets declaration.

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Nine of the undeclared properties are said to be in Abuja, eight in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, three in Florida, the United States and two in London, the United Kingdom.

The Okoi Obono-Obla-led Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property filed the suit before the court stating that Deputy Senate President did not declare the stated properties in the assets declaration forms dated June 1, 2007, and June 1, 2015.

The presidential panel, through a private lawyer engaged to institute the legal action, Mr Festus Keyamo, appealed to the court in the application to make an order to confiscate the properties for the meantime pending the conclusion of the investigation.

Keyamo stated in the application that Ekweremadu was being investigated by the Obono-Obla committee for alleged breach of Code of Conduct for Public Officers.

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However, Senator Ekweremadu in a statement issued by his Special Adviser, Media, affirmed that he has no further assets to declare as he challenged the Special Investigation Panel to go ahead to freeze whatever assets it claimed he did not properly declare.

‘’The so-called panel sought and obtained my Assets Declaration Forms but could not look at them since it is clearly out on a vendetta and smear campaign. This is clearly part of the 2019 politics’’ he explained.

Ekweremadu has since briefed his lawyers and is expected to meet the panel in court.

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