A Kaduna State resident, Rukayat Azeez-Ayodeji, who hails from Osun State, tells GODFREY GEORGE how the state government marked residential buildings, which she and her husband built for N17m in 2018 in the Kurmin Mashi area of the state, for demolition to pave the way for road construction and offered a compensation of N5.9m
how the state government marked residential buildings, which she and her husband built for N17m in 2018 in the Kurmin Mashi area of the state, for demolition to pave the way for road construction and offered a compensation of N5.9mI am from Osun State. My husband is from Kwara State. We moved to Kaduna almost 18 years ago. We met in Kaduna and got married. We have four children. I am 41 years old. My husband is 47 years old. I work in the private sector.
You claimed that the Kaduna State Government was planning to demolish your property without giving you commensurate compensation for it. Can you shed more light on what you meant? We acquired a plot of land in 2015 for N1.6m opposite the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna. It is along Poultry Road, behind the MS filling station, Kurmin Mashi, Kaduna. We built a three-bedroom flat for our use and another set of two-room self-contained apartments for rent. The place was ready in 2018 and that was the year we moved in. Two years after we moved in, I came back from work and my neighbours came to inform me that some government officials came to mark my house for demolition.
Nobody is talking to us. Even in the office when we were angry and shouting, they just told us that it was not their fault. Are we to pay when the government is constructing a road or any other infrastructure that encroaches on our property? Is it the poor me that will pay for such? It is not like there is a master plan, which states that houses should not be built there in the first place. I don’t really know what they want us to do.
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