The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the $460 million Chinese loan obtained by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2010 for the installation of Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras in key areas of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The project was intended to boost security in Abuja but was never executed.
President Bola Tinubu has stated that his administration cannot be accused of shielding any individual or group from facing legal consequences due to political ties, nor of obstructing crime investigations or prosecutions. He emphasized that his government neither harbors laws that protect wrongdoers nor engages in concealing anyone’s involvement in criminal activities.
Former Minister of Sports and Comrade General of the Movement for the Emancipation of Nigeria, Solomon Dalung, has urged the federal government to grant a presidential pardon to Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari, describing his ongoing detention and prosecution as a travesty of justice.
The Federal High Court, Abuja, has sentenced Garuba Mohammed Duku, a retired Director of Finance and Administration with the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) under the supervision of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), for corruption and money laundering involving N318 million.
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) command of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has confirmed the arrest of 12 suspected armed robbers involved in the death of ARISE News anchor, Somtochukwu Christelle Maduagwu as well as a security guard, Barnabas Danlami, at Unique Apartments, Gishiri Village, Katampe District, Abuja.
President Bola Tinubu has granted a presidential pardon to several historic and contemporary figures, like Herbert Macaulay, Mamman Vasta, Farouk Lawan, and others who were executed in 1995 under the military regime of late General Sani Abacha. Vatsa was sentenced to death over a treason charge in 1986, and Macaulay was twice convicted by the colonial authorities in Lagos. In 1913, while in private practice as a surveyor, he was tried for allegedly misappropriating funds from an estate he administered and sentenced to prison; historians have long debated the fairness of that prosecution.
