The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike has finally opened up after an altercation with an officer of the Nigerian Navy over the ownership of a landed property in Gaduwa area of Abuja.
The Minister, in a video shared by Arise News, said he cannot be intimidated by the military for doing his job and ensuring due diligence in the acquisition and use of land within the FCT.
Speaking to journalists at the site of the incident, the minister said he finds it difficult to understand how someone who is in the wrong would resort to using the military to intimidate others.
āI donāt understand how somebody who attained that position and he sees that he has a problem cannot approach my office to say, ālook, this is what is going onā but simply because he is a military man, he could use that to intimidate Nigerian,ā Wike said.
Also noting that he is not one who could be succumb to any form of blackmail or intimidation, the minister said it is important that government officials are allowed to do their jobs at all times.
He also insisted that the purported high ranking military official who owns the property in question does not have the documents to rightfully claims ownership of the land.
He said, āI am not one of those persons that would succumb to blackmail or intimidation. And you can imagine where you cannot even prove, where are the documents? And the director of Development Control is even there saying, ābring the documents, you donāt have the documents.
āBring the approval for building, you donāt have it. How can we continue to allow lawlessness to prevail in this country? What about those who donāt have the militaryā?
āWhat about those who donāt have security? It has now gotten to a level where, when government officials are busy carrying out their jobs, you go and bring security to intimidate them. I will not accept that.
āI have spoken to the Chief of Defence Staff and the Chief of Naval Staff. They assured me that the matter will be resolved. Weāre not here to have a shootout with anybody or cause chaos.
āBut I will not allow this to happen. The same way we enforce our laws in other areas is the same way it will be done here. Nobody whether a former Chief of Naval Staff or anyone else will be allowed to carry out illegal development on government land,ā Wike added.
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Did wike did the same to EFCC when they came to arrest his former friend when he was the governor of river state or not