Ibrahim Bunu is a Nigerian architect and Minister of the

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(FCT),

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at the start of the

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, holding office from May 1999 until February 2001 in the cabinet of President

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. He was replaced by Engineer

Mohammed Abba Gana Mohammed Abba Gana (born 1943) served as a Special Adviser on Civil Society to the Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar until 22 June 2006, when he was sacked by President Olusegun Obasanjo. He had previously served as a Federal Capital Terri ...

, also of

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, in a cabinet reshuffle in February 2001.

Biography

Bunu was born on 25 December 1950 in

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. In 1982 he was appointed Minister of State, Housing and Environment. Bunu designed the

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(NNPC) Towers in

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. In April 2008 the Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) summoned Bunu and other former FCT ministers to defend their actions with respect to land allocations, revocations and sale of Federal Government houses during their tenure. In March 2010 President

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set up a Federal Projects Assessment Committee headed by Bunu "to assess and provide necessary information on the status of on-going Federal Government projects across the nation." Bunu immediately came under pressure to explain how he could probe "ongoing projects" that started during his administration of the FCT.

References

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