Ekiti govt
insists Federal agencies must buy state properties being used, pay rent or quit
Ekiti State Government has said that federal agencies occupying houses
belongin
g to the State Government must comply with the government directive by
either buying the properties they are presently occupying or paying rent on the
properties.
The
government, which reacted to news report that it evicted the Nigeria Security
and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC) Ekiti State command and other Federal
ministries and agencies from their various offices, said;
“Yearly,
budgetary provisions are made for payment of rent by federal government
agencies, which has no permanent offices across the 36 States of the federation
and we wonder why those that have been occupying properties belonging to the
Ekiti State government for over 10 years do not want to pay rent or make the
properties theirs by buying them.”
In a statement
issued on Thursday by Governor Ayodele Fayose’s Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the government disclosed that some
of the agencies have purchased the properties they are occupying while others
like National Population Commission (NPC) have promised to pay next week.
The statement
read in part;
“As at today,
the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and
National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA)
have paid has paid N5.5 million and N10.8 million respectively for outright purchase
of the properties they are occupying.
“Even the
NSCDC is already offering to pay N18 million instead of the N27 million it is
ought to pay.
“The Nigerian
Prison Service, which is occupying properties valued at N108 million is
insisting that it won’t pay and we have given a seven-day ultimatum for all the
federal agencies to either purchase the properties, pay rent or quit.
“We are yet to
evict them. We gave them notice of one year and we have now giving another
seven days. There is no going back.”
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