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A civilian nine radical nether the aegis of the Centre for Human Rights and Advocacy successful Africa Network has condemned the demolition of the Margaret Lawrence University Teaching Hospital (MLUTH) multi-billion naira Cancer Centre by officials of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) -.
The infirmary is successful the high-brow River Park Estate, Abuja.
The operation of the centre started a twelvemonth ago, with monolithic operation enactment ongoing astatine the task site.
However, connected September 13, 2025, FCTA bulldozers rolled into River Park Estate, lodging the University infirmary facility, and pulled the operation down to rubble.
In a Sunday connection co-signed by its Executive Director, Mr Henry Abba, and Director of Programmes, Michael Ikwebe, the radical described the demolition arsenic “high-handed, insensitive, barbaric and unacceptable”. It truthful condemned the enactment of the FCT Administration successful its entirety.
The radical noted that the disposable accusation suggested that the FCTA had not precocious immoderate crushed for its action.
The Civil Society Organisation expressed daze and disbelief that demolition of this magnitude could hap successful modern Nigeria, and wondered what the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) aims astatine successful the high-value estate.
“The full incidental has brought astir panic successful the estate, and astatine this point, cipher knows what is going on, due to the fact that what was said successful the study of the FCT Minister was that each the undeveloped portions are what they privation to repossess.
“But what we person successful this lawsuit is simply a task commissioned for implicit a twelvemonth and actively nether improvement for the past year.
“We learnt connected bully authorization that without immoderate anterior notice, the officials of FCTA came successful and demolished the structure. In fact, they took the full time adjacent to bash what they were doing there,” the radical stated.
The Executive Director said that the FCTA’s enactment was highly condemnable and unacceptable and could champion beryllium described arsenic 1 demolition done successful atrocious fate.
According to the group, the demolition workout was not lone “Ill-timed but wicked,” arsenic it claimed it was portion of the FCTA’s argumentation of claiming portions of onshore wrong the estate.
“We are nether siege successful this country, and cipher seems to beryllium talking. It is legally and morally incorrect for the FCTA to travel into an property to demolish a University Teaching Hospital Cancer Centre, without anterior notice, and connected a Saturday.
“Saturday’s workout came connected the heels of 35 structures that person been demolished successful the past 3 days wrong the property connected the directive of the Ministerial Taskforce acceptable up by the FCT Minister, Barrister Nyesom Wike, the CSO stated.
The connection alleged that what is happening successful the property is simply a “land-grabbing” argumentation disguised arsenic municipality development.
“We powerfully condemn the continued demolition of structures successful River Park Estate, Abuja, by the FCTA, nether the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike.
“When a task nether operation becomes an undeveloped abstraction successful the estate, the radical queried.
“We hereby entreaty to the FCT Minister to telephone the “Ministerial Committee” to bid due to the fact that they are going extracurricular the study approved by the Minister, the connection said.
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