By Rauf Oyewole
Occupants of the Federal Government mass housing in Bauchi State have alleged illegal eviction from the facilities, according to them they are legitimate occupants.
The organised occupants who protested an alleged plan to sell the homes to another buyer, urged the government to rescind its plan.
The leader of the group, Comrade Aliyu Ladan, urged the government to kindly stop the move of selling these newly built 270 houses to another buyer in the interest of justice and fairness.
Ladan said that homes have been occupied by workers from different backgrounds in the State. “All these houses were issued or allocated to the workers residing in Bauchi by the Facility Manager after compliance with all the protocols and due process.”
Meanwhile, the State Controller, Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Arc. Nwamadu Herbert, said that the people residing in the houses are illegal occupants, "The people you are seeing protesting and anybody around the estate are illegal occupants. There's nobody that the ministry legally gave the houses to.
"The Ministry had earlier advertised about these houses and gave provisional offers to one or two and the people given the provisional offer have been contacted by the Ministry to clear all the necessary criteria. Then, the other ones that were yet to meet the requirements, they were given 90 days for this particular offer and they didn't meet the requirements. Sometimes in April the whole thing was revoked and it was published in the national dailies and is public knowledge," he said.
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