The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Nyesom Wike has said that he is not ready to stop carrying out the demolition of properties In Abuja.
This is coming after the Nigerian Senate ordered a thorough investigation into the recent demolitions in the FCT and established a committee to probe the issue.
The committee is tasked with inviting Wike to explain the reasons behind the controversial demolitions that had left many residents displaced.
The motion, presented by Senator Ireti Kingibe of the FCT Senatorial District, expressed the alarm over the alleged illegal destruction of properties and called for an immediate halt to any further demolitions.
Speaking during the distribution of operational vehicles to security agencies at the FCTA Secretariat in Abuja on Thursday, Wike claimed he would not be swayed by blackmail.
“There are so many land grabbers. Some of us have come to put our feet down. Let heaven fall. It is even better that heaven comes down now so that we would not be fasting again to go to heaven,” he said.
He added that he wouldn’t look at anyone’s face, adding: “If you like be a civil rights activist or a television personality.
“What is wrong is wrong; no amount of blackmail can stop us. People take government property without approval or documentation.”
SaharaReporters had earlier reported that more documents from the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) indicted Wike’s personal lawyer, Ferdinand Orbih, and the former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Cross River State in the 2023 elections, Sandy Onor, in the Abuja land grabbing scandal.
Sources had told SaharaReporters that Onor who is a director at ALEED Construction Limited with a total number of 500,000 shares, was Wike’s confidant.
Also, Orbih who is a shareholder of the same ALEED Construction Limited with a total number of 500,000 shares, is the minister’s personal lawyer “that represents him in all his controversial cases.”
Another Wike’s crony indicted by the documents in the land grabbing scandal who are directors and shareholders in one of the front companies – ALEED Construction Limited which Wike allegedly used in re-allocating the revoked lands in FCT are; Minority Leader in the House of Representatives, Hon Kingsley Chinda.
The documents showed that Chinda is both a serving director in the company and a shareholder with eight million (8,000,000) shares.
The CAC documents showed that ALEED Construction Limited was registered on May 14, 1997 with a registration number 307460 and address at Agbada II, Shell Oil Location Road, Igwuruta, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, as a private company limited by shares.
