The immediate past Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim has been dragged before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over the multi-billion dollar Centenary City project.
This was disclosed yesterday by the National Vice Chairman, South-South of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, who had on July 21, 2015 written a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to as a matter of urgency, probe Senator Anyim Pius Anyim.
He, in that petition, alleged that Anyim appended his signature on the Centenary City document without properly briefing former President, Goodluck Jonathan about it.
Ojougboh, who made this known to newsmen in Abuja, said: “The former President thought that the Centenary City project was for the good of all Nigerians because of the centenary spirit. But unknown to him, it was the private project of the former SGF and his cohorts. Yes, the former President signed the papers as presented to him by the former SGF.
“He was not properly briefed because of vested interests. I can defend him, he was not part of the fraud. If Jonathan had been properly briefed, he would not have approved the project, let alone talk of going to perform the ground breaking of the project.
“I am calling on President Buhari now to revisit the centenary project and he will be shocked at the findings that the project was owned by private individuals but procured with government funds”.
The PDP bigwig alleged that the former SGF was involved in fraudulent acquisitions perpetrated by the sponsors of the project covering over 1,500 hectares of land in the Federal Capital City, Abuja, adding that the size of the land was equal to Maitama, Asokoro and Guzape districts put together.
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