By Adesina Soyooye
Senator Kingibe alleges Wike allocated land to his son and slashed the cost from N200m to N2m only.
Dr. Lanre Tejuosho, a former Senator, and the Pro Chancellor of the University of Abuja, has lamented the short-changing of the institution by Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
Tejuosho who spoke on Arise Television’s Prime Time, anchored by Charles Aniagolu, disclosed that Wike has literally taken all the land belonging to the University and left it with little or nothing.
He revealed that the Minister took away 11,000 hectares of the University’s land, and left it with 4,000 hectares.
But here’s the sad part, according to the Pro Chancellor.
Out of the 4,000 hectares, 2000 it of no use as it is a sprawling mountain. He, therefore, asked the Minister to come and take the 2,000 mountainous hectares and develop.
The Minister’s action, he said, has already affected the development of the University.
An immediate fallout of the slashing of the land is that the Cancer Research Centre of Nigeria which wanted to partner with the University to develop a Cancer Research Centre, would have no space.
Tejuosho: “Even the 4,000 hectares, 2,000 out of it is a mountain. When you fly out of the Airport, the mountain you see is the University. Looking at what has been proposed, we only have 2,000 hectares because we have a mountain of 2,000 hectares. May be Minister Wike should come and take over the mountain and develop it.”
Meanwhile, the Senator representing the FCT, Ireti Kingibe, has alleged corruption on the part of Minister Wike as it concerns land allocation.
Kingibe, whose relationship with Wike is very untidy, allegeges that the Minister allocated a N200 million Abuja land to his son and slashed the cost to N2 million only.
“I have the facts and the documents of his corruption”, she insisted.
Wike had, on a couple of times, denied any allocation of land to any of his sons.
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