ICPC SEIZES 12 PROPERTIES BELONGING TO NFF OFFICIALS.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has seized no fewer than 12 properties belonging to top officials of the Nigeria Football Federation(NFF).

The officials affected are President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick and 2nd vice president of the football body, Shehu Dikko.

Newly officials indicted by the investigation are Head of NFF Technical Committee, Ahmed Yusuf, and NFF General Secretary, Mohammed Sanusi.

Investigation by newsmen on Sunday showed that the NFF president, Pinnick owned a majority of the properties, with one of them situated in the London, United Kingdom.

According to a breakdown of the properties seized, in a document obtained by Sports Extra, shows that Pinnick owns six, Sanusi has three, and two belong to Yusuf, all of the NFF.

Report has also revealed that details obtained on Dikko’s seized properties were sketchy.

Officials of the ICPC earlier seized one of his properties, located on 1, River Benue Close, Maitama, Abuja, on Friday morning.

The document showed Pinnick’s properties seized as a mansion located at 2C Layi Ajayi Bembe Street, Parkview Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos; a bungalow located at 3, Oritsejafor Close, GRA, Warri; Brownhill Event Centre located at Plot 6/7 ELF Road, Ogunmu-Warri, Warri Central, Delta State.

Also, other Pinnick’s properties seized by the anti-graft agency are a bungalow located at First House, 3rdStreet, DDPA Housing Estate, besides Delta Broadcasting Service, Asaba, Delta State; an apartment at Regents Plaza, 8 Greville Road, North Maida Vale, London NW6 5HU, UK; Plot 1805 Cadastral Zone A10 Maitama II, Abuja vide Right of Occupancy dated 15/05/2019 with file no. DT 64003.

The document also listed Sanusi’s seized properties as the house beside the Mosque of Alheri School, off Tsafe Road, near Guiwa Low-cost Housing Estate, Sokoto; Plot 8001 Cadastral Zone E08 vide offer letter dated May 15, 2019 with file number KW30584; and a property at 6A, Tangier Street, off Sudan Street, Zone 6, Abuja.

The two seized properties belonging to Yusuf, according to the document, are a bungalow located at First House on Prison Yard Road, off David Mark Road, Minna, Niger State; and another bungalow located at Bosso Estate, behind State Government, Orphanage Home, Minna, Niger State.

Sources in the anti-corruption agency told journalists that the investigation may extend to other officials of the NFF with suspicious properties.

When contacted,
the spokesperson of the ICPC, Rasheedat Okoduwa, debunked reports on social media that seals on Pinnick and Dikko’s houses had been removed.

Dikko’s house was sealed on Friday morning, before officials of the ICPC again proceeded to seal Pinnick’s mansion in Park view Estate, Lagos, in the afternoon.

She said, “Our work is still ongoing. We have seized those properties and other ones. The full list on Dikko’s seized properties will be made available today (Monday). The one for Pinnick and two other characters are already available. But our investigation is ongoing.

Both Dikko and Pinnick’s sealed properties remain seized. If the seals are removed, those that did that are not our officials. We are investigating something about them. What they have is in excess of what they have earned.”

Okoduwa also debunked reports that President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, was influencing the ICPC’s investigation

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