Architect Ibrahim Bunu was Minister of the Federal Capital territory (FCT), Nigeria

Nigeria

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 at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic

Nigerian Fourth Republic

The Fourth Republic is the republican government of Nigeria. Since 1999 it has governed the country according to the fourth republican constitution. It was in many ways a revival of the Second Republic, which was in place between 1979 and 1983 and suffers many of the same problems, such as multiple...

, holding office from May 1999 until February 2001 in the cabinet of President Olusegun Obasanjo.
He was replaced by Engineer Mohammed Abba Gana

Mohammed Abba Gana

Mohammed Abba Gana 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....

, also of Borno State

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Borno State is a state in north-eastern Nigeria. Its capital is Maiduguri. The state was formed in 1976 from the split of the North-Eastern State...

, in a cabinet reshuffle in February 2001.

Bunu was born on 25 December 1950 in Ngala

Ngala

Ngala is a local government area of Borno State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Gamboru Ngala.It has an area of 1,465 km² and a population of 237,071 at the 2006 census.The postal code of the area is 611.- Geology :...

, Borno State

Borno State

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. In 1982 he was appointed Minister of State, Housing and Environment.
Bunu designed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Towers in Abuja.

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 Goodluck Jonathan

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Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, GCFR, BNER, GCON is the 14th Head of State and current President of Nigeria.He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the...

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.