also the principal officers of the National Assembly.
“The Obasanjo administration should not have sold the official residences of the Senate president, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and their deputies to Senator David Mark, Hon. Dimeji Bankole, and others.
“Today, the FCDA is spending billions of naira building another set of official residences for the National Assembly’s principal officers. Had the government retained them, billions could have been saved in building a new set of residences for the leadership of parliament,” he said.
A survey carried out by THISDAY revealed that a four to five-bedroom detached house in Wuse II, Abuja, goes for anywhere between N8 million to N10 million per annum. The rate is almost the same in Gwarinpa Phase 1 and Utako, Abuja, while a four-bedroom detached house in Maitama or Asokoro goes for between N10 million and N15 million per annum.
