President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ordered the immediate dissolution of the Presidential Implementation Committee, PIC, on the Alienation of Federal Government Properties.
In a statement issued on Thursday by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Tinubu directed that all matters previously handled by the committee now be coordinated by the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi.
The PIC was established in 2000 under former President Olusegun Obasanjo to oversee the privatisation, sale, and lease of Federal Government landed assets as part of the government’s monetisation policy.
Its membership included the then Minister of Housing as Chairperson, with representatives from the Ministries of Transportation, Justice, Health, Agriculture, and the Nigeria Police Force. Professor P.T. Ahire, then a Deputy Director in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, served as pioneer Secretary. Other members were drawn from both the
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