According to Newsmen, The FCT Director of Lands Chijioke Nwankwoeze, was given a directive yesterday by FCT Minister Nyesom Wike to provide alternate lands for Gishiri demolition victims within a week. When the minister visited the impacted victims in Gishiri on Wednesday, he disagreed with the director, who informed him that it would be hard to locate a completely free area and that there would not be enough land available to distribute among the recipients. "I disagree with you," the minister said. I hope that I won't hear about this problem again. You guys have a week to go and assign those lands to them. If it's insufficient, we'll manage it by finding a substitute.
However, In order to avoid losing their lands, the victims were also counseled by the minister to begin receiving their compensation money. "I will not give you the land either, and you will be the one who suffers if I find out that you did not take it." Therefore, don't insist that I give you the land before you do. Additionally, the minister instructed Nasiru Suleiman, the director of the Department of Resettlement and Compensation, to provide compensation to the impacted individuals within a week.
The Minister had previously been told by the Director of Land that the victims would not be handed the area until it had been designated and divided into plots. "The area's problem is that it's a 12-hectare plot and the demolition was done a long time ago," he stated. After that, they began submitting applications for building plans and began creating them haphazardly. Therefore, you can't actually get a certain area that is totally free.
He said, "If you don't take the money, I'll not give you people the land again. Go and collect the money. So, as you take the land, you start developing it.
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