By ZAKAA LAZARUS-Abuja.
A group under the aegis of Concerned FCT Residents and other 65 Civil Societies have called on the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr. Nyiesom Wike to revolted lands seized during his first year in office.
The group also called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to call Wike to order, citing that his administration has alot cases of corruption which they say has been swept under the carpet.
The Convener of the group, Mr. Husiaini Abubakar made the called while addressing newsmen on Friday in Abuja.
According to him, as the case in Rivers, Wike is gradually turning FCTA into his property
He said where a godson, even if by your own agency, has now also become all
too powerful leaves everyone wondering if the situation is not even worse.
“Wike is busying himself with what is absolutely not his business.
“He should instead
concentrate on his job as the Minister of the FCT, where his attention is truly needed.
“But even there, his underlying urge forself-idolization is taking over his faculties,
such that, if not immediately addressed, by the time he is done with his term in
office in the FCT, it is most likely that he will have successfully taken us back to where
we were 20 years ago.
” It seems for Wike, anything that isn’t him, is not too good and
as such has to be taken down.
“It is for this that Wike is, for instance, bent on taking us
back to pre-AGIS days in land administration which is fraught with high-level
corruption, mismanagement and waste of resources.
“To put this plainly, Wike is
bringing down the roof of AGIS in orderto perfect his individual control and
dominance overland in the FCT, as he had done while in Rivers.
“It is an irony that when various states are taking afterthe AGIS to sanitize land
administration, Wike is taking the FCT back to where the states are abandoning.
“In perfecting this, he is mercilessly crushing every internal resistance from those who
toiled to put up the systems within the FCDA.
The group also noted that the
removal recently of the director, urban and regional planning may not have been
unconnected to with this agenda.
” For him, you either help him to entrench his
dominion and hang up his sculpture, or you are out of play’. He said.
“Why did we introduce the Geographic Information Systems and Land Information
System in the
rst place, which gave birth to the Abuja Geographic Information
Systems, AGIS? Wike cannot claim to be unaware reasons.
“Abuja is rapidly expanding because of population movement and this has further
made the land business very intricate, if big.
“The market is prone to fraud, manipulation and a lot of
crisis, bred by highly entrenched businessmen in cahoots with offcials in the FCTA and FCDA.Outofthesecrises,individual lose their lands fortunes and
government loses revenue.
“With AGIS, human participation in the process is limited
and most especially, with clear traceability and accountability of every action taken.
“As a governor, who, what’s more, has a legal background, he knows that the more human participation in land administration, the greater it is susceptible to manipulation.
“Like everything, AGIS is not perfect but it o
the traditional challenges in the sector.
” For someone who knows this much, and still
chooses to go ahead with it, the motive is not farfetched.
“Wike is equally replacing people in strategic offence with his own people who would obviously end up doing his bidding, simply to convert Abuja into his estate.
“Chijoke Nwanko Eze who he recently appointed as director of land in the FCDA is back to
serve as his hit man.
“Those of us relating with land and issues related in the FCT, are
aware how he was herded out-of-the-way the past because of several allegations, including allocation of several plots to himself.
“He would now help to
implement his principal’s unholy agenda.
“There is also every indication that those working in AGIS will be shipped out because the agency will be going down completely, to be replaced by his men who would help erect the stand of his
emperor’s stool.
“The fearis that, behind this veiled move, there may be an agenda
to uproot Northerners and Muslims in the system.
“And this is not out of place to
assume. Wike has a well-known precedent of doing this.
” When he was governor, he
declared that Rivers is unapologetically a Christian state.
“Such a person cannot be
expected to handle our diversity well because of his credentials as a crooked provincialism.
“And what’s more, what he does to systems and policies, Wike didn’t leave out even infrastructure.
“Those in Abuja wonder what is the rationale behind some of the
rigors the man is bringing to rehabilitation of roads that are already in perfect
condition, especially when there a lot of infrastructure decits across the city.
“For instance, one is lost as to why he is scrapping the already tarred roads in say
Maitama, Asokoro or Wuse, among others.
“Not only are they in good condition, they may remain strong for overall a decade.
“Why would taxpayers’ money go into such projects since the rear enumerator communities that redfish road projects, among other things, to improve connectivity and urban development. He said.
“Besides, FCTA is not only about land and road projects. Everyone is where that Abuja has some of is he worst schools and hospital facilities”. He added.
