Maikalangu Condemns Demolition Of Karsana Community By Developer

The Executive Chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Mr Christopher Maikalangu, has decried the demolition of Karsana 2 community by a developer, Oceanic Properties and Equilibrium Concept.

Addressing newsmen and community members after an inspection of the damage, Maikalangu said the developer must compensate the community members.

He, however, appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Minister of the FCT, Barrister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, for quick intervention in addressing the situation in the interest of residents of the affected community

Maikalangu also appealed to the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation for the immediate resettlement of the community members, stressing that the affected residents have nowhere to sleep.

“As you can see, this is Karsana II in AMAC, FCT. This is an indigenous community that has existed for years, even before the creation of FCT itself. Before developers located this place, human beings existed here. These people do not come from Cameroon, neither from Egypt. They are indigenous and also Nigerians. Overnight, without any court notice or compensation, they came down here, and down our houses. ”

“As you can see, these people are homeless. My question is: whee does this developer want them to sleep today? If the unimaginable happens now, they say the Gbagyi people are very stubborn. We are loving people, but we can not tolerate this. ”

“There are measures and policies in terms of compensating our people. But this man, called the owner of Oceanic Properties and Equilibrium Concept, on his own, came down here and demolished these houses people are living, knowing fully well they are already away for their various businesses, he came here in the absence of residents and pulled down our houses”.

“Look at us. The chief is standing there, nowhere to sit, nowhere to sleep. We can’t continue like this in this country. The developer is creating insecurity by displacing these people at this time.Nobody will build a house here. The man who demolished this place has a home. Whether he is from the east or North, anywhere, he has an ancestral home first. ”

“I’m submitting this report to the Honourable Minister of FCT to take action immediately. After that, we are going to court ourselves because we can not continue this way. Many of them don’t have anywhere to sleep, as you can see. He added, “.

Also speaking, the Youth Secretary of Karsana community, Dikko Jezhi, said the displacement came without warning as the developer came with armed police men to demolish houses in the community when they were at work.

He said: “Yesterday, without notice or information, we were called at our work places that our houses have been brought down. We had to rush down here and saw the caterpillar with some policemen, saying that they were sent from the above, so we were left speechless.”

“I was asking my mother yesterday. Do you have any other state? My mother said even her grandfather was also born here. So we don’t know where to go. They have demolished our houses with our properties in it so we don’t know where to go to”..

“If they continue to push us to the wall, we can join other bad groups to react, but we don’t want to do that. But now they should provide alternatives to resolve this issue.
Uncountable houses were destroyed, including churches and the chief’s palace.”

Garry Ochigbo, Edited By Grace Namiji