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Nigeria: Top Medical Doctor Drags El'rufal to Court
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This Day (Lagos)
11 May 2008
Posted to the web 12 May 2008
Lagos
Barely a year after leaving office, the specter of deeds committed by Nasir El-Rufai, former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT have continued to haunt and torment him. Former federal capital territory (FCT) Minister, Nasir el-Rufai, has again been accused of arbitrary allocation of land to cronies in manners that violated the due process and rights of the landowners.
El-Rufai allegedly allocated a plot of land numbered R306 at the Gwagwalada Residential Layout in Abuja to his chief of staff, Abbas Balarabe Lawal, without refunding the money paid by one Idris Zago, who bought the land in 1990, but has not had his certificate of occupancy restored since the recertification exercise conducted by the Abuja Geographical Information System (AGIS).
Taiwo Malumi, a medical doctor, who instituted the case against el-Rufai and Lawal at an Abuja High Court, explained in a statement that el-Rufai's action amounts to abuse of office, and is praying the court to nullify the allocation and hand the land's ownership back to him.
The plaintiff is being represented by lawyers from Ben Anachebe Chambers. "Zago was allotted the parcel of land and was duly offered his right of occupancy conveyed to him in a letter dated November 27, 1990, by Alhaji S. Ibrahim, the then Director, Land Administration of the FCT. While awaiting infrastructural development of the residential layout, Zago received another right of occupancy letter dated February 16,2001", the statement quoted him as saying.
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"In another letter signed by Mallam M.S.U. Kalgo, then the Director of Land, Administration and Resettlement, FCT, Sago's original land was withdraw and replaced with another plot at the Cadastral Zone, Asokoro District." When el-Rufai began the recertifiation exercise in 2005, Malumi said he submitted the statutory right of occupancy and got an ackwoledgement copy on November 8, 2005, but is yet to get any correspondence from the AGIS three years after
The statement added that "a routine visit to the property by the
Attorney revealed that the land was being prepared for development by an unknown person. The startling discovery caused the attorney (Malumi) to forward a letter to el-Rufai demanding an explanation as to why the documents submitted had not been returned and who was preparing the plot for development. The letter and several others went unanswered while work on the plot continues unhindered.
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