The Abuja Metropolitan Management Council, Federal Capital Territory Administration, has demolished illegal structures at Plot 1765 in Games Village, Abuja.
The AMMC Director Finance and Account, Mr Nasiru Isa, who disclosed this while speaking with journalists after the exercise in Abuja on Thursday, noted that the plot was allocated for the council’s Senior Staff Housing Estate.
He pointed out that the demolition exercise to take possession of the land followed due process.
Isa made it clear that the plot was initially allocated to a company that constructed Games Village temporarily.
He stressed that a directive from the Presidency in 2008 had ordered the management of the village not to erect, alter or modify any part of the premises’ external land.
Isa equally revealed that the letter was signed by Mr Abbas Umar, former Director, special duties, in the Presidency, for the Ad-hoc Committee on Sale of Federal Government Houses in FCT.
He stated that the management of Games village flouted the directive in running the affairs of the estate.
“There is a private school and mechanic workshop on the plot, which is not supposed to be, because the place is a temporary site.
“We have served the management of Games village several notices before carrying out the demolition today, and there are correspondences to justify our action.
“It is not a new thing. We started the demolition about four months ago. We only went there today to complete the exercise.
“We must not forget that the issue has been on for three years.”
The Assistant Director, Urban Affairs, Mr Abubakar Makama, also noted that Games Village Association had written a petition over the disputed plot.
Makama further said that the AMMC Management had confronted the petitioners with documents of the correspondences on the ownership of the plot.
