Building next to the Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to the President, residence in Abuja was destroyed by Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Wike’s action allegedly violated a court ruling on the subject and was done without giving any prior warning of the demolition.
On Thursday, September 28, 2023, it was reported that the large property in the Maitama District of Abuja’s Cadastral Zone had been destroyed.
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According to sources, the building had been there for a very long time before Gbajabiamila moved into his ultra-modern home in 2019, while he was Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Additionally, it was learned that the top level of the building, which was demolished, supposedly looked out into Gbajabiamila’s private pool.
However, the property’s owner, an Abuja company named Shrodder Nigeria Limited, has written to President Bola Tinubu to accuse Wike of acting without consequence and completely disregarding a legal court order.
The firm claimed in a letter dated September 26 that the property was demolished without prior warning of an infraction through the representation of Jeph Njikonye (SAN).
When Muhammad Bello, a former FCT minister, and representatives of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCTA) entered the site on October 4, 2022, a disagreement over the land arose.
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Bello reportedly instructed the FCDA to seal off the property a day after the invasion and detachment of mobile policemen to prevent construction workers from entering the property.
Documents indicate that there was no previous notice of an offence prior to the property being sealed off.
Consequently, the owners of the property caused a legal action of trespass and unlawful possession against the Minister of the FCT and the FCDA, in suit number FCT/HC/CV/3449/2022 between Shrodder Nigeria Limited and Minister of FCT before Justice Abubakar Musa of High Court of the FCT.
In his order on April 4, this year, Justice Musa banned the defendants from further interfering with the 1st Claimant’s legitimate use, quiet possession, and occupation of the plot.
The defendants’ unauthorised appropriation and occupation of the plot’s property on October 5, 2022, is deemed a trespass, according to the court.
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“That the defendants are hereby ordered to vacate, with immediate effect, the Claimant’s property, unseal the property and remove forthwith the mobile policemen they had unlawfully and illegally installed on the property since on the 5th day of October 2022”, the judge held.
It was learned that neither the FCDA nor the Minister of the FCT filed an appeal against the High Court’s ruling.
Even though the FCDA failed to abide by the court’s directive to remove the seal order on the property, the matter took a new turn on September 19 when Wike entered the property with bulldozers in order to tear it down.
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