Wednesday, November 3, 2010

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has said that it has prepared fresh charges against former Minister of the FCT, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai. The charges are to be filed at an FCT high court on Friday October 22





Fmr. Minister of the Federal High Court, Nasir El- Rufai flagged by some EFCC operatives at one of his outings during his trial

The anti-graft agency disclosed this in a swift reaction to a ruling of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja today discharging the former minister of the eight count charge earlier preferred against him by the EFCC, over the jurisdiction of the court.
The EFCC, had earlier  investigated a petition chronicling allegations of abuse of office against Mallam El-Rufai on how he allocated government lands to his friends, wives and family members, in flagrant breach of the Abuja master plan. 
According to the petition, the former minister, between 2003-2007, allocated ten plots of land in choice areas of Abuja and in various sizes to his family members, including his wife, Hadiza Isma El-Rufai, who got two plots- one in the Asokoro district and the other in the Kubwa district. Other family members who were allegedly allocated plots are: 
Read More:http://www.efccnigeria.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1033&Itemid=34

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