EFCC seizes N872m houses from ex FCT minister, Bala Mohammed and his son

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has seized four houses worth N872 million belonging to former FCT Minister, Bala Mohammed, and his son, Shamsudeen Bala, The Nationreports.
The ex-minister is being investigated for alleged fictitious contracts of about N1billion, allocation of 12 choice plots worth billions of Naira and 37 other commercial plots of land worth about N8 billion to his suspected front named Tariq Hammoud as well as the controversial N1 trillion Abuja land swap

More than 16 companies linked with fictitious contracts awarded by Bala had been under surveillance and their owners grilled by EFCC.
The anti-graft agency quizzed Shamsudeen, Hammoud and top directors of the Federal Capital Territory administration, including that of Treasury, Ibrahim Bomoi; Land, Babayo Mainasara, and Abuja Geographical Information Service (AGIS), Ms Jamila Tangaza.
Tangaza is currently in detention and battling for bail. She has been linked to N800 million questionable contracts to her personal firm apart from benefiting from plots of land from the ex-minister. According to investigations, the ongoing probe of the ex-minister followed petitions against him, including complaints pending since 2013. After doing a preliminary investigations, EFCC