JUST IN: Wike Reads Out The Riot Act, Tells Abuja Residents, “Your Houses Must Go Down If You Build Illegally”

The newly sworn-in Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has sounded a demolition warning to landlords of properties distorting the master plan of Abuja.

He promised to restore the Abuja master plan.

Wike made this pledge shortly after he and 44 other ministers took their oaths as they were sworn in on Monday.

He urged all land allottees who have been given Certificates of Occupancy but failed to develop them to quickly do so as they stand the risk of losing them to those ready to build.

“If you know you have built where you are not supposed to build, it will go down”, he said.

All those people who are distorting the master plan of Abuja, too bad. If you know you have built where you’re not supposed to build, it will go down,” Wike said during a press conference in Abuja on Monday, moments after taking his oath of office at the State House.”

He added that for anyone who has developed where they are not supposed to, even if the culprit is a minister or an ambassador, “your house must go down”.

The former Rivers State governor’s warning also went out to landowners who had taken over “the green areas” to build properties, saying those areas must come back.

“If you hate green, you must hate yourself. So, if you know you have anybody involved that has taken over the green areas or has taken over the parks to where you now do restaurants, no, we will not accept that. Sorry,” he said.