El-Ruffai Spent N660m on Demolition Exercise.
April 17, 2008 by 
Che Oyimnatumba
By Ashimole Felix/Abuja.
Mallam Yahaya Yusuf, Acting Director in the department of Development Control Federal Capital Territory Administration testifying at the Senate Committee investigating the past activities at the Federal Capital Territory Administration, said that FCTA under el-Ruffia destroyed 73,956 houses at the cost of N660m.
Meanwhile an organisation under the aegis of Abuja Forum is accusing the Senate Committee of going on a witch hunt to nail el-Ruffai.
el-Ruffai the past minister, is yet to testify at the ongoing public hearing. When el-Ruffai was minister FCT, he went on a dare devil demolition of structures considered illegal and not in conformity with the Abuja master plan, lands were revoked despite the owners tendering a Certificate of Occupancy, given by el-Ruffai’s predecessor. Confessions by FCT authorities at the hearing have exposed el-Ruffai as a fraud, who paid lip service to the restoration of Abuja master plan.
It was gathered that el-Ruffai, using AGIS (Abuja Geographical Information Service) recertified and allocated choice plots revoked from the legitimate owners to the cronies of the ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo.
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