Ensure owners of structures are compensated before you carryout demolition, Adodo tells Chinese company

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The General Manager, Alhaji Garba Baba Conglomerate, Mr Friday Adodo, called on the China Harbour Company to ensure that people were adequately compensated before their structures would be demolished to avoid altercations .

Adodo stated this on Sunday in an interview with newsmen in Makurdi.

The China Harbour Company is the company that is dualizing the Keffi-Akwanga-Lafia-Makurdi-Enugu road.

The general manager lamented that part of the structure of the house of his boss was pulled down on Saturday without adequate compensation.

"They should ensure that compensation is paid before demolition. They should not demolished people's structures without compensation. 

"The Chinese construction company is pulling down people's structures with the help of the military. 

"The ideal thing is a letter of consent has to be sent to the owner of the structure billed for demolition to sign several weeks before the actual demolishing date. It is not done with force," Adodo said. 

He, however, disclosed that the amount given to them as compensation was grossly inadequate, stressing that we were even under paid. 

He said that they wrote a a letter to the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing to revalue their structure that was earmarked for demolition and they agreed to revalue it only for them to see workers of the company with soldiers to give them backing to enable them demolish the structure.

"We are going to approach the court for redress because it is our last resort and hope," he said.

When contacted the Public Relations Officer of the company, Mr Jerome Zaamo said that according to the records given them by the ministry, the claimant was adequately compensated. 

"The enumeration number in respect of the compensation is 4346. This shows that he was compensated. 

He, however, admitted that the claimant wrote a letter complaining of poor compensation.

"The amount that was paid to him was N422, 280 in the year 2021 but I have forgotten the actual date. 

"Compensation is the responsibility of the Federal Government and not the company," Zaamo said.

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