Demolition:Go To Court If You Are Aggrieved-Elrufai Tells Hunkuyi
Following the outrage that greeted the demolition of Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi’s house on Plot 11B, Sambo Close,
Angwan Rimi area of Kaduna metropolis, the state government has asked him to go to court, if he felt that his house was wrongly demolished.
The All Progressives Congress, APC, Secretariat, a building said to be owned by Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi, along Sambo Road, Kaduna, demolished yesterday by the Kaduna State Government.
This is even as the government put up a tenement rate bill of N30 million for Senator Hunkuyi on one of his houses at Inuwa Wada street, Kaduna.
Senator Hunkuyi who disclosed the new twist through his Twitter handle @HunkuyiSuleiman tweeted:
“Once again, @GovKaduna Malam @elrufai has sent a ridiculous bill to me for a purported ground rent of my personal house at Inuwa Wada to the tune of N30 million to be paid within 30 days, failure to do so might probably result to another demolition like he did on my other property.”
The position of the government was conveyed by Mr. Uba Sani, Special Adviser to Governor Nasir el-Rufai on Political and Intergovernmental Affairs, who briefed journalists in Abuja, yesterday.
He said: “We can tell you that we have a law and if he feels aggrieved, he can go to court. I can assure you that when he goes to court, we will prove the fact that we took this action in accordance with the Land Use Act. “It is not persecution. If you regard it as persecution, it means the over 100 people whose houses were demolished in the last one year are being persecuted.
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