A Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, has ordered the final forfeiture of 60 buildings illegally acquired by a former deputy commandant of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps,(NSCDC) Adenike Ishola Bintu, to the federal government.

Trouble started for Bintu when the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) in a forfeiture proceeding, approached Justice O. A. Egwuata, praying for an order for the final forfeiture of the 60 buildings and a 9.6 hectare plot of land, both located at Sabon-Lugbe South-West Extension, Airport Road, Abuja, alleged to have been acquired by Bintu through corrupt means.

The commission had argued before the court that the former NSCDC deputy commandant, set up a private company, Faith Winners Victory Properties Limited, through which she allegedly perpetrated the fraud by selling plots of land to unsuspecting members of the public.

The court heard that Bintu claimed that the land, which she used to defraud over 1,000 people that subscribed into the estate business, was owned in partnership with NSCDC.

However, the subscribers, who had made several payments running into millions of naira, were never allocated plots of land nor had their funds returned to them by Bintu and her company.

Furthermore, ICPC proved before the court that Bintu, who had jumped bail and is now a fugitive, did not enter into any partnership with NSCDC to build estates for members of the public.