The Task Force set up by the Plateau State Government on the Recovery of Purported Auctioned Government Property by the immediate past administration has stated that it has uncovered persons who allocated to themselves government lands and landed property without due process and appealed to them to immediately vacate such property failure of which it will embark on publishing the names of those defaulting having been officially notified.
This was disclosed by the Chairman of the Committee, Nde Isaac Wadak in a statement signed by the Secretary, Barr. Pam Gyang. According to the statement, the Taskforce will go ahead to publish names of defaulters in National dailies for refusing to comply, while it is carrying out physical retrieval of same Government property.
While confirming this development, Nde Wadak while speaking to our medium added that “Our mandate as a committee once again is to identify/locate and recover government property purported to have been illegally auctioned, boarded or possessed”, adding that “the Task Force has so far received inventories and reports of most landed property, equipment, moveable assets, including vehicles and machinery belonging to the government”.
According to him, the Task Force in pursuit of the mandate it was constituted for, has written letters to persons concerned who are allegedly in possession of government property to return same for use by new officers occupying their former offices.
He disclosed that the Committee has started retrieving government property including vehicles from some individuals who complied with the appeal to return same.
Nde Wadak appealed those still in custody of government property and other moveable assets and are yet to return to do so immediately without further delay or face public disgrace as there is dearth of vehicles at the moment for official use and the government will not use public funds to replace what ordinarily supposed to be available but were purportedly taken away by certain persons for their personal uses.
He said those concerned should have a rethink and again consider the humongous cost of these vehicles should Government want to acquire them under the present economic realities.
The Task Force while reiterating the stance of government on the fact that the exercise is not in anyway meant to witch-hunt anyone, the level of responses and compliance will determine whether the act is of sabotage or deliberate. The Task Force again applauded Plateau Citizens who are still providing it with useful information that have been of immense contribution in achieving its mandate.
Recalled that the media was awash days ago with reports of the recovery of nineteen (19) vehicles from some individuals and also the visit of the Task Force to the Plateau Agricultural Development Board, Government Green Area around Yelwa Club Bukuru and the Kara Market at Kugiya Jos South Local Government Area where it interfaced with officials of the Cattle Sellers Association of Nigeria Plateau State Chapter to assess the level of alleged illegal sales of land and structures built there.
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