- Safiu Kehinde
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) residents of a demolished estate in the Sabon Lugbe area in Abuja, have planned to protest against the action of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, accusing him of disregarding pending suit over the landed property.
Counsel to the aggrieved victims, Mr Kalu Kalu, made this known on Tuesday while speaking with judiciary correspondents in Abuja.
According to reports, the Weather-Field Estate was one of the buildings recently demolished by the authority in FCT.
Kalu alleged that despite a suit filed at the High Court of the FCT against the minister and two others, to stop the demolition, and the court processes duly served on the parties, his clients’ estate was demolished.
The lawyer said to ventilate their anger against the alleged injustice, his clients and the over 100 families already rendered homeless would soon embark on massive protest in designated areas in Abuja, to draw the attention of the presidency to their plight.
He said his clients had mandated him to write officially to the Inspector-General of Police and the Director General of the Department of State Service (DSS) to ensure that the protest is peaceful and is not hijacked by hoodlums.
“As we have said earlier, the land is genuinely allocated to us and we have all the necessary title documents released to us upon payment of statutory fees.
“Information reaching us is that the authorities of the FCT have put the land for sale.
“We are hereby issuing warning that no Nigerian should buy the land or any portion of it as doing so would be tantamount to wasting of resources.
“We hereby challenge the media to investigate our claims to the ownership of the land and come out with independent report,” Kalu said.
The lawyer restated his appeal to President Bola Tinubu to call the FCT minister to order so that peace, social and economic policies of government can flourish.
The lawyer reaffirmed that his clients had absolute confidence that the judiciary would in the end do justice to the injustice against them.