EXECUTIVE lawlessness is on display in Kano, where Governor Abba Yusuf, fresh from his inauguration, immediately launched a spate of demolition of public and private property in the historic city.
At the last count, he had levelled a recently built roundabout and attached monument, several commercial buildings, houses, a petrol station and one hotel. An NGO assesses the value of the properties so far destroyed at over N200 billion and counting. Governance is anchored on law and due process. Therefore, Yusuf should be compelled to act only within the law.
Within 72 hours, the bulldozers were out in force, pulling down structures. Having revoked ownership and allocation papers, buildings were hastily marked for destruction. First to go were four properties, including a three-storey complex with 90 shops near the Nasarawa GRA, the three-star Daula Hotel reconstructed by the Abdullahi Ganduje administration under a Public-Private Partnership arrangement, a building at the Hajj Camp, and a complex of shops at the Kantin Kwari textile market.
To correct any such anomaly, however, all Yusuf needed to do was to follow due process; establish the case by way of judicial or administrative inquiry, and criminal investigation, and then take possession or pull down, only after being duly empowered by the necessary legal instrument. Under Nigeria’s law, there are clearly laid down legal procedures for recovering, seizing, or demolishing illegally acquired public assets. The onus now lies on Yusuf to prove that he followed the law.
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