Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has defended the demolition of properties in the nation’s capital, vowing that he won’t be stopped by blackmail.
Edum News reports that the Minister also explained that the structures being demolished by the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) are properties illegally built on government lands.
The Minister said this in response to protests against the demolition and the order by the Senate to probe the ongoing demolitions in Abuja.
“Let me use this opportunity to tell Nigerians and residents of Abuja, we are not afraid of blackmailing,” the minister said during the distribution of operational vehicles to security agencies at the FCTA Secretariat in Abuja on Thursday.
“Infact, you cannot be in this kind of position and say you cannot be blackmailed particularly as regards this Abuja. There are so many land grabbers. Some of us have come to put our feet down. Let heaven fall. It is even better that heaven comes down now so that we would not be fasting again to go to heaven.
“We would stop anybody who thinks they will take government land for whatever reason with formal approval. We would not look at your face. If you like be a civil rights activist or a television personality,” Wike, the immediate past governor of Rivers State, said during the event.
“What is wrong is wrong; no amount of blackmail can stop us. People take government property without approval or documentation.”
