With less than 20 days to his exit, Governor Nasir El-rufai of Kaduna State, Northwest Nigeria, has approved the demolition of some properties, including residential buildings
These are, IMN across the State, UBE schools, Damau Household Farms, Gbagyi Villa, Ali Scorpion House, Oriapata and Polo Club Stable at Ungwan Doki.
Others are at Architect Namadi Sambo Road, Danbushiya Layout and General Hospital, Kawo earmarked to be ‘visited’ with bulldozers along excavators and loadbed
The approval followed a letter titled
“Request For Clearance To Carry out Pending Demolition Exercise”,
dated April 20, 2023 from the Director General, Kaduna State Urban Property Development Authority, Ismail Umaru Dikko requesting the urgent release of N29,253,500 for the demolition exercise .
According to the letter which was treated with dispatch, “His Excellency, is invited to kindly consider the above and approve the release of the estimated funds to enable the authority execute these pending tasks.”
Of the N29,253,500 to be expended on the exercise, N20,253,500 will be used to demolish IMN properties across the State, N2.351m Gbagyi Villa, while Famau Household Farm will take N2.405m.
Reasons advanced by the Authority for the demolition, are the ban placed on the Islamic group, encroachment on schools’ landed properties, non-compliance on special regularisation programme, dilapidated structural failure, urban renewal and upgrade, encroachments and illegal subdivisions.