Sources from the Ministry of Work and Government Assets Commission disclosed how the Anti-Corruption is currently putting necessary documents and concrete facts in their task to probe those who have confiscated government properties into their own.

Out of in-depth investigation, this press discovered that many citizens have over the years either misused and later convert government properties into private ownership. This ugly scenario has warranted the Government Asset Commission who has the legal mandate together with the Ministry of Works to take action on those citizens.

In a recent engagement with the Commissioners of the Government Asset Property Commission, Chief Hindolo Morseray and the Executive Secretary of the commission Victor Vandi Kamara expressed their total dissatisfaction over what they referred to as unscrupulous attitude of certain citizens who are deviant to national development but only concern about their egocentric achievement are in the bad habit of misusing and converting government properties into private ownership. They stressed on their eagerness to go after these people, adding that the commission has done all its necessary paper works to protect and clamp down on them.

“The crime is committed by many individuals all over the country and we have records of all government properties including H.S19 government quarter at Hill Station where Antony M.B Aruna a former senior staff at the immigration department claiming to be his personal property. But when we interrogated him to produce authentic document to substantiate his claim he never came to us again but we advised him in his best interest that no one will make ownership of government proper without going through the proper channel,” they said.

The Deputy Minister of Works Philip Tetema Tondoneh disclosed there is no doubt about government ownership of HS 19 because it is on record and the issue with Mr. Aruna has been with his ministry for quite some time adding that they will never relent in digging the truth about those who are head bent or milking this country dry for their own endless quest to enrich themselves at the peril of the nation.

“It is just a matter of time but no individual will succeed in cheating the nation. We have no problem with either Mr. Aruna or any other person in gaining ownership of government property. We have advised them many time but whoever challenges will be at their determent,” he stated.

In an investigation with Mr. Aruna at G. Shankerdas and Son’s SL Limited company where we met him some time, he claimed to have document from the ministry of lands to prove his ownership to the property that he is claiming to be his own. He displayed some documents which this press will produce later in subsequent editions.

On the allegation that Mr. Aruna changed HS 19 to 26 Regent Road Hill Station, he stated that latter address has been in existence for long. “Maybe you are talking about similar address at Regent Road,” Mr. Aruna said.

Nevertheless, Mr. Aruna become enraged when asked about the inferno that greeted the HS 19 building. When and how it happened?

In a related development, a senior civil servant who prepares anonymity with this press expressed discountenance over the ineptitude of the Government Asset Commission to operate as expected by the general public more so when its operations is on the whims and caprices of the president office which portrays its significant nature.

In fact many people who are conversant with the functions of that commission described it as carcass or a toothless Bull dog. In fact many people doubted their actual function.

See more stories in subsequent editions with pictorial evidence and documents.