No fewer than 400 residents who made part-payment for houses at\u00a0Minanuel Estate, Abuja, have filed suits against\u00a0the Federal Capital Territory Administration for demolishing the estate.<\/p>\n
Mr. Festus Adebayo, a spokesman for the estate, disclosed this to the News agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja.<\/p>\n
Adebayo, who is also a legal practitioner, said the beneficiaries filed their suits individually and in different courts to \u201cseek justice.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said that the people concerned paid for the\u00a0houses in the estate and were expected to occupy them before the end of 2012.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe appeared before the National Assembly with the development control officials and other stakeholders to deliberate over the issue on the September 28.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe following day, the development control team went to the plots and demolished all the buildings which comprised two and three bedrooms.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the allegation, the Director, Development Control Department, FCTA, Dr. Yahaya\u00a0Yusuf, said the estate was demolished because the houses were built on illegal plots.<\/p>\n
Yusuf said that the developer\u2019s document was an AMAC allocation document which was supposed to have terminated in 2006.<\/p>\n