Our Reporter
TEN human rights organisations under the aegis of Nigerians for Nigerians (NFN), have supported residents of Games Village in Surulere, Lagos, in their bid to recover their sewage treatment plant.
The residents recently protested the sale of the plant by some government officials. They asked the Presidency to intervene.
Coalition president Mr. Chukwu Arinze, in a statement described the incident as an affront on the rights of the Games Village residents.
He said having sold the estate to the present owners in 2014; the Federal Government had no right to sell anything on the estate.
Arinze wondered why the government would sell the estate to the residents and come back years later to sell the sewage plant to vested interests.
He said: “This is like selling a house to somebody and selling the toilet to another person, which is unheard of.
“The Works and Housing ministry has no right whatsoever regarding the sale of the plant, as this right resides in the Presidential Implementation Committee (PIC), set up by the government for that purpose and which sold the estate.
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“On this, we smell a rat and we are taking this opportunity to call on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe the sale of this asset and bring those unscrupulous government officials behind the sale to book.”
Arinze said this had become necessary to further prove that government’s anti-corruption battle was not a fluke.
He said it will be most unfortunate for Games Village residents to be cheated when their counterparts at 1004 flats are in possession of their plant.
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