hehehehehe......SaharaReporters claims that Zamfara State governor,
Abudal’aziz Abubakar Yari, bought a property in the United States for
$950,000 two years after taking office.
The 2.1-acre property is located at 14800 Bowie Farm Court,
Bowie Maryland (Zip code: MD 20721) has six full and two half bathrooms
with a jacuzzi in the master bedroom.
Deed documents obtained by SaharaReporters from the Circuit
Court of Prince George’s County, Maryland, USA, denote Mr. Yari as the
sole owner of the property, which was purchased from a limited liability
company, K Hovanian Hamptons, located at Creek 11, Delaware. The
company used to be known as Real Property Holding, with an address at
Prince George’s County, before changing its name on 25 January 2011.
The deed on the property is dated August 27, 2012, while
the approval of the purchase was granted on 1 November 2012 after Yari
paid the princely sum of $950,000 cash, there was no mortgage on the
property. Equally captured on the deed document is the sum of $5,225,
which was described as “recordation of tax paid” and $13,300, described
as “transfer tax paid”, both offering indications that Mr. Yari operated
a foreign account in clear breach of Code 3 of the Code of Conduct
Bureau.
A real estate property tax information obtained by
Saharareporters from Prince George’s County shows that Governor Yari
paid taxes on the property up till date, his 2017 estate tax was $16,
583.10.
Mr. Yari bought the property after his fraudulently awarded N25billion in road contracts in Zamfara in 2012.
The code of conduct law expressly prohibits certain public
officials from operating bank accounts in any country outside Nigeria.
These include the President, Vice President, governor, deputy governor,
ministers, commissioners, members of the National Assembly and the
Houses of Assembly of the States.
According to the deed document, Mr. Yari signed the
agreement in person, with Kimberley Armstead a notary public of
Montgomery County State of Maryland, serving as a witness.Governor
Abdulaziz Abubakar YariSahara Reporters Media.
In May, this website exclusively reported that Mr. Yari,
Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, is building a 100-room hotel
in Lekki, Lagos, with the $3million he stole from the Paris Club loan
refund to states. Aside from the $3million, Mr. Yari was also found to
have diverted the sum of N500million from the Paris Club refund to pay
off a loan. He was said to have withdrawn N500million from the
N19billion Paris Club refund illegally paid into the account of Nigerian
Governors’ Forum as payment to “consultants”. He deposited the stolen
sum into a bank account with a mortgage bank from which he had taken an
N800million loan to buy properties in 2013. This move, SaharaReporters
learned, enabled him to renegotiate his debt from N800million to
N500million.
Mr. Yari is allegedly thought to have trousered the sum of
N2.2billion from the sum illegally diverted into the Nigerian Governors’
Forum Account by the Federal Ministry of Finance. The Senate President,
Mr. Bukola Saraki, and his cronies also benefited to the tune of
N3.5billion from illegal diversion, which is being investigated by the
EFCC. Officials of the anti-graft agency told SaharaReporters in May
that Mr. Yari’s hotel, which is under construction, has been listed as a
proceed of crime and will be taken over once the EFCC obtains a court
order.
Mr. Yari has denied ownership of any hotel in Lagos, claiming he does not even own a plot in the Nigeria’s commercial capital.
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