The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN), has frowned at the action of the Kaduna State government of encroaching into its land, which it claims exposes staff and students of Federal Government College (FGC) Kaduna to security threats.
To that end, the federal government had sued the state government at the High Court of Kaduna State where in a writ of summons, the FGN sought among others, “a declaration that the claimants through the FGC Kaduna are the rightful owner of all the land comprising the FGC and including the land at the bank of River Kaduna.
The federal government also petitioned Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State to the inspector-general of police (IGP), asking for the deployment of police to protect the students, staff, and the properties of the FGC, in Malali area from the encroachment of the Kaduna State government.
Senior federal government sources told Journalists in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, at the weekend that they were worried over the security of the students and staff of the FGC as schools resumed academic studies on Sunday.
A source privy to the matter hinted that the letter to the IGP through the Federal Ministry of Education was to ensure that the students and staff as well as the school properties were protected as the Kaduna State government had already started pulling down some parts of the perimeter fence of the unity school.
“I wish to bring to your attention an unconscionable action of the Kaduna State government which not only exposes the staff, students, and properties of the Federal Government College, Malali, Kaduna to security threats but is a display of disregard for the rule of law,” reads the letter to the IGP, as seen by Journalists.
“On April 18, 2023, the principal of the Federal Government College, Kaduna, forwarded a letter dated April 17, 2023, received from Kaduna State Urban Planning and Development Authority (KASUPDA), that the state government had excised the initialised portion of land, within the college premises, towards the stretch of River Kaduna.
“The next day, April 18, 2023, officials of the KASUPDA, forcefully started bringing down the fences surrounding the college and from April 19, 2023, started to re-survey the land, digging and erecting a fence. As of April 22, 2023, eight couches of blocks have been laid on a stretch of one kilometre.
