A House of Representatives panel has concluded plans to summon former minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Bala Mohammed over the issue of land swap policy. The committee on FCT chaired by Rep Herman Hembe (APC, Benue) said yesterday that Mohammed would be summoned to explain his role in the land swap policy as head of the ministry of FCT.

The House had on December 15 mandated the committee to examine the land swap policy following a motion on the matter. Hembe told journalists in Abuja yesterday that the committee would determine the effectiveness and otherwise of the policy, level of infrastructural development in the designated districts as well as its benefits. The committee is also set to determine the status of allotted but undeveloped plots within Abuja city centre as well as abandoned capital projects within the territory and make appropriate recommendations to the House. Asked if their action would not be misinterpreted to mean witch-hunt of the past administration, Hembe said: “I was in the last House and I was also a member of PDP. But the bottom line is that what is wrong is wrong. We’re looking at what had been done wrongly.”