Residents of Life Camp area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, have cried out in response to the FCT Minister, Nyseom Wike’s revocation of their land interests.
In multiple videos uploaded on X (formerly Twitter), the FCT officials were seen storming the community with a bulldozer to demolish the houses but they were resisted by the residents.
The residents claimed that there was a subsisting court order stopping the FCT administration from demolishing their houses and declaring the revocation of their interests as illegal.
Martins Vincent Otse, also known as VeryDarkMan, a social media influencer, said in one of the videos that the revoked land belonged to a late prominent military soldier whose family members are currently occupying it.
He said the FCT minister revoked the land and reallocated it back to his cronies.
VeryDarkMan said: “These people have been here since 1984 when they allocated this land to them. They have the papers and all the legal documents. Wike woke up just one morning and said he had revoked the land. That the land is vacant.
“And now he has allocated it to these persons, I have the RofO and CofO to the people he allocated it to. He allocated it to SARAFINA NIG LTD. This same Sarafina is allegedly the person managing Wike’s hotel in Port Harcourt.
“The other person who has also share in the whole of this thing is the Head and the leader of the minority in the House of Reps. Now I am calling on the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy, and the Nigerian Air Force because what is happening here today is total injustice.
“Why I am calling on you is that the person who owns this land, the person who has the legal documents of this land passed on just four years ago. This is family and his people and a whole community living here(currently).
“This man was the first cadet in the Nigerian Defence Academy. If this kind of thing can happen to him after he passed, this man is the man that carried the bullet in his body for years before he passed on, if it can happen to him, you that is current colonel, current general, and you can’t open your mouth to stop this injustice that Wike wants to do here. Mind you, tomorrow may be your turn.”
An X user, Jennifer Omosefe Duru said her uncle is one of the residents whose properties are being targeted for demolition.
The netizen shared a video capturing the moment FCT officials were about to demolish her uncle’s house.
“Imagine if my cousins were not around, that’s how Nyesome Wike would brought down my late Uncle’s sweat!! you people should help me and beg Hon Minister of the FCT to please don’t do anything he will regret in future. There are some things you don’t do. people live in,” she captioned the video.
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