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... Appeals to Tinubu, Wike, Humanitarian ministry for intervention

...To sue developer over damages

...Laments demolition of chief palace, church, buildings

... We're displaced, developer didn't give warning- Youth Secretary

The Executive Chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Hon. Christopher Zakka Maikalangu, is presently fuming over the demolition of Karsana 2 community by a supposed developer, identified as Oceanic Properties and Equilibrium Concept.

Addressing journalists and community members on Saturday morning, after an inspection of the damages done by the developer, Maikalangu said he will not take the development lying low as the developer must compensate the community members.

He appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Minister of the FCT, Barrister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, for intervention in addressing the situation.

Maikalangu also appealed to the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation for the immediate resettlement of the community members, saying the community members have nowhere to sleep.

He said: "As you can see, this is Karsana II in AMAC, FCT. This is an indigenous community that has been here for years, even before the creation of FCT itself. Before developers located this place, human beings existed here. These people do not come from Cameroon, neither from Egypt. They are from Nigeria. They are indigenous here. They are citizens of Nigeria. Overnight, without any notice from any court, no any compensation, they came down here yesterday, pulled down our houses.

"As you can see, these people are homeless. My question is: where are they going to sleep today? Where does this man or developer want them to sleep today? If something happens now, they say the Gbagyi people are very stubborn. We are loving people, but we cannot tolerate this.

"There are measures and policies in terms of compensating our people. But this man, they call him owner of Oceanic Properties and Equilibrium Concept, on his own, came down here and demolished these houses. Even where people are living, while people were away. Knowing that people are already away for their businesses, he came here yesterday, with nobody at home and he pulled down our houses.

"We, the indigenous people of FCT, will not take it. We are heading to court and he must pay for it. If I see this man here, I will forget I am the Chairman of AMAC. Look at my people. They have nowhere to sleep and they are Nigerians.

"Look at us, the chief is standing there, nowhere to sit, nowhere to sleep. We can't continue like this in this country. The developer is creating insecurity with displacement of people. I'm grateful to Mr. President. He said it that day in Gishiri.

"He said, before we came to FCT here, people were living peacefully and we should love them and we should compensate them very well, which the minister did very well.

"He gave the allocation and he gave them money! Now, this man just like that, pull down our houses because he thinks we are nobody. We are
indigenous people, we are going to defend this. We are going to court and he has to pay for this damage."

He added: "Nobody will build a house here. This man that demolished this place, he has a home. Whether he is from the east or North, anywhere, he has a home first. With the Gbagyi people, the name Karsana is important. If you want to relocate people who live here, first thing, compensate them. If you don't want them here, give them another alternative.

"Get them somewhere, build houses for them and relocate them. But you destroyed the houses, they have nowhere to sleep and you are comfortable. It's unfair. We are all Nigerians. We can't take this nonsense. That is it. We are taking them to court.

"Im going to meet my Boss, who is the Honourable Minister of the FCT, to complain to him because, yesterday, I called the Director Development Control, but his phone was not available. This people that came down here yesterday, we don't know where they are from

"From the information I got, they are not from Development Control. So we want to know who are they. If they are compromising with some part of Development Control officials to do this injustice to our people, then we are going to show them that we are indigenous of FCT.

"I'm submitting this report to the Honourable Minister and he has to take action immediately. After that, we are going to court ourselves because we cannot continue this way. Many of them don't have anywhere to sleep. They don't have anywhere to sleep, as you can see.

"There's no alternative. As I speak to you now, I'm even speechless. You can see it yourself. Where are they going to sleep today? I don't know. But we must find our way to reach the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs because these are human beings. These are Nigerians. They have to come and do something immediately. You cannot be killing our people like this. People are alive, but you are killing them. So the federal government has to intervene in this case."

Also speaking, the Youth Secretary of Karsana community, Dikko Jezhi, said the displacement came without warning as the developer came with armed police men to demolísh houses in the community when they were at work.

He said: "Yesterday, without notice, without any information, we were called. Some of us are working. We were called in our various working places. That our houses have been brought down. We had to rush down here. We saw the caterpillar with some policemen, saying that they were sent from the above. So we don't have any other way to go.

"I was asking my mother yesterday, do you have any other state? My mother said no. Even her grandfather, this was where, the grandfather was born. So we don't know where to go. They have demolished our houses. Our properties are down. We don't know where to go.

So we are calling on authorities. They have been pushing the indigenous people to the wall. Now we don't have anything to do. We want to react now.
It's because it's our father's land.

"If they are pushing us, we have to react. We can join bad groups, but we don't want to do that. But now they should provide alternatives to solve this issue.
Uncountable houses were destroyed, including churches and the chief palace."

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Maikalangu should stop with the theatrics and take it up with his fellow APC member and minister of the FCT. We know the so-called developer would not have done so without the approval of Nyesome Wike.

Never heard of this community before. I'll come back to edit.

Modified; Lamentations of a Nigerian politician. When he gets settled now, you won't hear anything from him again

That chairman is just putting on a show. He knows who the supposed developer is and is even probably aware that the community is going to be demolished. If he says he isn't aware then that means Wike too isn't aware but we know that's not possible. You can't go and just demolish communities in Abuja just like that knowing the kind of person Wike is. So whoever did this, had the backing of someone in the highest echelon of the FCT administration.

This is also why buying land anywhere near Abuja or within Abuja is the riskiest thing to do.

The emperor has touched another location!
They never cheee chomchin!

Hmmmm. Let's investigate the ownership of Oceanic....

Hope it isn't what I suspect. A Developer

APC vs APC nah them them oh, them they form and they know themselves

A private developer does not have the authority to demolish buildings. Demolition can only be done by FCDA Development Control Department.

So, there is a need to immediately identify the people that demolished the community and who gave them the approval to carryout the demolition. If there is no approval and the developer simply resorted to self help, he should be arrested immediately and sued to court for illegal demolition of people’s properties.

Who is the Developer? Does he have an identity? hmmm

seunmsg:
A private developer does not have the authority to demolish buildings. Demolition can only be done by FCDA Development Control Department.

So, there is a need to immediately identify the people that demolished the community and who gave them the approval to carryout the demolition. If there is no approval and the developer simply resorted to self help, he should be arrested immediately and sued to court for illegal demolition of people’s properties.

u av spoken well. It just too much with the demolition in Abuja

bestman09:
Never heard of this community before. I'll come back to edit.

Modified; Lamentations of a Nigerian politician. When he gets settled now, you won't hear anything from him again

How? Back of popular gwarimpa estate, is two hundred naira from there to gwarimpa

Abuja is not Rivers. Abuja is not Lagos.

That developer should go and try and build on that land and see what he and his workers will see.

When these greedy people come from the south to behave with impunity tomorrow they will say they are being targeted after destroying people’s homes

Mumu Nigerians who have been colonized and impoverished psychological will say Wike is working. That his stubborn drunkard type is what Nigerians need.

But he's busy destroying lives and livelihood of the poor without settlement and as well stealing lands for his generation. Yet they hail him
I don't have pity for the average Nigerian again. Some even say Wike will make a good president. Wike type that will be in jail in sane country. I doubt if Nigerians can ever be free from the chain of political oppression and poverty because they are too foooolish to know evil people once the person throw small corn for them to pick like chicken

Ye ye and good for nothing Amac chairman. He doesn't have the same energy to work and projects like Wike. He is coming back as chairman of the council because of Philip Aduda closeness to Wike.

The minister and the DG of development control must be aware of this demolition. The developer can't just go and demolish the place am aware of this, cause I work with AMMA

Óga, begin to calm down.
E fit be say Wike and Tinubu are the owners of the estate.

All for the camera 📸 See the way He's even posing for shots 😂

You mean someone can just go to a community just like that and demolish buildings including the Chiefs palace abi house?

They know themselves.

Is this man a Nigerian? This name doesn't sound Nigerian, including the name of the community.

Hmmm.....so the community just sat in and watched their homes destroyed? ... aren't there men in the community? Some things are beyond me.

That is what they learnt from tinubu and Sanwo olu destroying igbo people property for not voting for them while Yorubas have been voting who they wanted but one thing is certain….consequences

Don't be Shocked that he was briefed before the demolition and just trying to paint himself good in the eyes of the people.

ogugwa1992:
... Appeals to Tinubu, Wike, Humanitarian ministry for intervention

...To sue developer over damages

...Laments demolition of chief palace, church, buildings

... We're displaced, developer didn't give warning- Youth Secretary



https://leaders.ng/2025/07/19/maikalangu-fumes-over-demolition-of-karsana-community-by-developer/

Anyhow country. They had the ball$ to carry out that demolition because they are sure they got strong backing from the powers that be.

AMINDA:
Maikalangu should stop with the theatrics and take it up with his fellow APC member and minister of the FCT. We know the so-called developer would not have done so without the approval of Nyesome Wike.

You are busy bothering yourself with APC, you have forgotten that Obi is still in indeterminate state as you lament now. He is neither in ADC nor LP. He doesn't know which one to leave and which one to join. He may end up loosing the two. Instead of you to busy looking for where Obi will settle down, you are busy with APC that owns almost all the governors in Nigeria at moment.Ok, continue