Demolition: Abuja land proprietor hauls Wike to court

 Alhaji Mohammed Ibrahim Kamba, a landowner in Abuja, has filed a lawsuit against the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and the Director of Development Control for destroying his under-construction building at Plot 226, Cotonou Street, Wuse Zone 6, Abuja.

His attorney, Okechukwu.C. Uju-Azorji, an associate of Festus Keyamo Chambers, made this clear in a formal statement on Thursday.

According to the statement, "Our client was greeted with the news of demolishing his structure under construction at Plot 226, Cotonou Street, Wuse Zone 6, Abuja on Monday, August 29, 2023." In the meeting conceded right away by the Overseer of Improvement Control, he expressed, "We crushed the duplex since someone based on another person's territory without legitimate title… "

"The actual plot had a place with the ancestor in title of our client, Alhaji Mohammed Ibrahim Kamba, who had fabricated a visitor house (prevalently called "Young men's Quarters") on the Plot where he was gathering rent for as many as 25 years prior to offering and giving over belonging to our client in 2019. Alhaji Mohammed Ibrahim Kamba, in turn, purchased the property during Oyebade Lipede's lifetime.

"At the point when our client initiated the improvement of the Plot including the redesign of the current visitor house, a specific Abuja-based lawful professional took out an Immediate Criminal Protest against our client at the Grade 1 Region Court, Abuja for trespass, guaranteeing that the property had a place with Oyebade Lipede, the late Alake of Egbaland. On January 9, 2020, the suit was dismissed, and the Grade 1 Area Court Judge specifically urged the parties to take the matter to the FCT High Court because it had become a question of land title (attached is the CTC of the ruling).