No fewer than 400 residents who made part-payment for houses at Minanuel Estate, Abuja, have filed suits against the Federal Capital Territory Administration for demolishing the estate.
Mr. Festus Adebayo, a spokesman for the estate, disclosed this to the News agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja.
Adebayo, who is also a legal practitioner, said the beneficiaries filed their suits individually and in different courts to âseek justice.â
He said that the people concerned paid for the houses in the estate and were expected to occupy them before the end of 2012.
He condemned the action of development control department of FCTA over the demolition, adding by such action it had taken the law into its hands.
âWe appeared before the National Assembly with the development control officials and other stakeholders to deliberate over the issue on the September 28.
âThe following day, the development control team went to the plots and demolished all the buildings which comprised two and three bedrooms.
âThis action is barbaric and not acceptable; the issue on ground is beyond fake document they claimed that we presented at the National Assembly, but it is purely political,â he said.
Reacting to the allegation, the Director, Development Control Department, FCTA, Dr. Yahaya Yusuf, said the estate was demolished because the houses were built on illegal plots.
Yusuf said that the developerâs document was an AMAC allocation document which was supposed to have terminated in 2006.
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400 Minanuel Estate residents sue FCTA over demolition of estate