Victims of a demolished estate in the Sabon-Lugbe area of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have raised an alarm over an alleged planned sale of the demolished property at the sum of N30 billion.
The victims who spoke through their lawyer, Kalu Agu Kalu, however, warned interested buyers to keep off as the property is currently a subject of litigation before a High Court of the FCT.
They presented some documents affirming the lawful allocation of the land to them and warned that anybody or group who buys the land would be doing so in breach of the law and at their own risk.
They insisted that the land upon which their over N200 billion buildings were erected was allocated to them within the ambit of the law and upon payment of all the statutory fees.
Kalu said that a private company (name withheld) with foreigners as directors was being used to dispose of their land at N30 billion.
To ventilate their anger against the alleged injustice, the lawyer said that his clients and the over 100 families already rendered homeless would soon embark on massive protests in designated areas in Abuja, to draw the attention of the presidency to their plight.
To ensure that the protest is peaceful, the lawyer said his clients have 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 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.
“Besides, we filed a suit at the High Court of the FCT and served processes of the suit on parties, yet the demolition was done despite the pendency of the case.
“Information at our disposal is that the authorities of the FCT have put the land for sale (but) we are hereby issuing warning that no Nigerian should buy the land or any portion of it as doing so would be tantamount to a waste of resources.
“We hereby challenge the media to investigate our claims to the ownership of the land and come out with an 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 the government can flourish.
He assured that his clients would not take laws into their hands, in spite of the glaring injustice, but would pursue their litigation to a just conclusion.
The lawyer reaffirmed that his clients have absolute confidence that the judiciary would in the end do justice to the injustice against them.
