Abuja Estate Developers have faulted the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Nyesom Wike, over the demolition of properties worth N200Bn houses were demolished due to the revocation of their lands.

The group accused the Minister of undermining the court and rule of law in the demolition exercise and called on President Bola Tinubu to call him to order.

Addressing a press conference on the issue on Friday in Abuja, counsel to the demolition victims, lawyer Kalu Agu lamented that the pulling down of houses at Sabon-Lugbe area of Abuja has rendered over 100 families homeless

The lawyer insisted that the owners of the demolished houses were legally and lawfully allocated with the land by the authorities of the Federal Capital Development Authority FCDA and having their title documents intact.

Agu explained that upon becoming aware of the move by the FCT Minister, the affected house owners filed a case against it at the High Court of the FCT and that all necessary court papers were duly served on the Minister.

He said that it was disheartened that Wike, being a lawyer, could proceed to execute the demolition in spite of the pendency of the suit of the house owners.

The lawyer said, “We have been briefed and we have the instruction of Home builder association of Nigeria to bring to the notice of Nigerians that the Minister, Nyesom Wike has been involved in illegal demolition of properties in Sabon Lugbe.

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“Our clients have all the necessary title documents to Sabon Lugbe Abuja. Before they started the projects, they got building permits from Development Control Unit of the FCT administration.

“It is on record that before development control will issue any permit, it will liaise with the Urban and Regional Planning who will verify wether the applicant is actually the real owner of the property he wants to develop and payment were made to the said development control.

“However, to the surprise of everybody, the Minister without notice to anybody and our clients and by executive fiat, directed the said Development Control to go to Sabon Lugbe to destroy properties worth over N200billion.

“As we speak today, the said demolition has rendered many Nigerians homeless because people were resident in the said place and today, they are homeless.

“What bothers our clients is that for the Minister to enter such place and order for the demolition, there must be a court order.

“The Minister cannot be a judge in his own case. He cannot say the people are land grabbers and at the same time issue orders for demolition.”