According to Vanguard
The Nasir el-Rufai-led government in Kaduna State is alleged to have taken a step that puts the staff and students of the Federal Government College in Malali in danger, and the Federal Government has expressed its concern about this alleged action.
The FGC and Malali’s territory have been infringed upon by the Kaduna State Government, and the Federal Government has petitioned Governor el-Rufai to the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, requesting the deployment of police to protect the FGC and Malali’s students, staff, and property.
Additionally, it has forced the Kaduna State government into court, where they are requesting a permanent injunction barring the defendant from continuing to trespass on the state’s Federal Government College property.
Following the encroachment by the Kaduna State government, highly placed government sources told journalists in Abuja over the weekend that the government was concerned about the security of FGC students and staff as schools resumed academic studies on Sunday.
One of the people with knowledge of the situation claimed that the letter sent to the IGP by the Federal Ministry of Education was intended to protect the students, teachers, and school facilities, but that the Kaduna State government had already begun tearing down some of the perimeter fence surrounding the Unity School.
“I wish to bring to your attention an unconscionable action of the Kaduna State Government that not only exposes the staff, students, and property of the Federal Government College, Malali, Kaduna, to security threats but is a display of disregard for the rule of law,” read the letter to the IGP that newsmen were able to see.
“On April 18, 2023, the principal of the Federal Government College in Kaduna forwarded a letter from the Kaduna State Urban Planning and Development Authority, KASUPDA, stating that the state government had excised the initialized portion of land within the college’s grounds that faced the Kaduna River.
“On the following day, April 18, 2023, Kasupda officials began forcibly tearing down the fences that surrounded the college.” On April 19, 2023, work on re-surveying the area, digging, and erecting a fence began. Eight (8) block sofas have been laid on a stretch of one kilometer as of April 22, 2023.
“The men and women of a Kaduna State Vigilante Force are guarding the new perimeter fence that is being built to delineate the illegally delimited territory while it is being built at a frenetic pace.”
“Students would be returning from their second term break on Sunday, April 30, 2023, and this unwarranted response to such an act will convey the wrong message to their impressionable minds about the importance of upholding the law.” The Land Use Act is crystal clear on federal government lands in the states; hence, this is most significantly a case of breaking the law.
When classes resume on Sunday, April 30, 2023, there will be police officers present throughout the college, especially in the places where this incursion is occurring, to protect the students and the school’s property.
The Federal Government has summoned the Kaduna State High Court in the interim.
The Federal Government is asking for a number of things in the summons, “a certification that the claimant, through the FGC Kaduna, are the legal owners of all the land included in the FGC, the land at six banks of the River Kaduna.”
“A proclamation that the 1999 Constitution (as modified) and the Act that establishes the FGC, Kaduna, be followed, allowing it to carry out its role in peace.
“An order to restore the fence that the defendants had torn down to its former condition.”
an order prohibiting the defendants from denying the claimant access to all the land donated to the college by the claimants for the purpose of carrying out their mission.
“An order of perpetual injunction prohibiting the defendants from engaging in further acts of trespass on Federal Government College land in Kaduna, whether by themselves, their representatives, servants, or privies.”
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