A group, which identified itself as Ohaneze Ndigbo Christian Youths in Diaspora, has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the immediate past Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim over his role in the Centenary City project in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
The project, whose foundation stone was laid by former President, Goodluck Jonathan in June 2014, is said to be a private sector-led project that will birth a smart city similar to Dubai, Monaco and Singapore. Given a free trade zone status, the city covers 12.6 square kilometres with only 20% allocated to residential.
But while calling on Buhari to probe the entire project, the group, in a petition issued yesterday by its president-general, Mr. Cosmas Elechi, alleged that the former SGF acquired shares by proxy against civil service rules.
They claimed that records from the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, indicates that Centenary City Plc is partly owned by Company First Limited represented by Esther Onoji and Basic Start Limited represented by Jennifer Onah. They described both Onoji and Onah as Anyim’s aides.
Alleging that the other directors of Centenary City did not have a single share under their names, Elechi wrote that “The scheme of declaring the Centenary City as a Free Trade Zone is to give waiver to the owner which has been robbing Nigerian government of revenue”.
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