ECWA Church, in Wuse 2, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, has asked the National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Daniel Okoh, to thoroughly probe the alleged confiscation and reallocation of a land in the FCT, claimed to be originally meant for “Christian Convention Centre,” to another party.
The church, in a letter obtained by The PUNCH, directed to Okoh, claimed that the land, with initial Plot Number 575, Cadastral Zone B00 Kukwaba District, close to the Abuja City Gate, was reallocated to a Muslim organisation, Sharif Ibrahim Saleh Islamic Centre, by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Bello.
“This is coming as a surprise because the Federal Government, in recognition of the importance of the two religions, allocated a similar land in the same axis to our Muslim brothers, with Plot Number 514 Cadastral Zone BOO Kukwaba, along the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Way prominently located closer to the Abuja City Gate where our Muslim brothers have been using as their Eid Praying Ground since 1990 when the seat of government moved to Abuja,” the letter written late April and signed by Musa Amfani...
They added that the plot originally planned and retained in the Revised Land Use Plan of Kukwaba Recreational Park was designed as the Christian Convention Centre. According to Amfani, in the letter acknowledged by CAN in mid-May, it was gathered that efforts had been made to make the FCT minister review the allocation.
He stated that the ex-Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, had also intervened but to no avail, saying the minister was reportedly told that another land had been allocated to CAN elsewhere.
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