Former Senate President Bukola Saraki has had his home in Kwara torn down (NASS)
The Kwara state government has brought down the political home of the Sarakis in Illorin, the state capital, for "flagrant abuse of the allocation terms."
The home is called the ‘Ile Arúgbó’.
According to TheCable, the home was demolished in the early hours of Thursday, January 2, 2020 after security operatives dispersed protesters, including aged women, from within the complex.
The state government had fixed midnight for the demolition exercise to avoid a clash with Saraki’s loyalists who had been keeping watch on the complex, the report adds.
Kwara Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, had last month announced his decision to revoke the late Olusola Saraki’s property because it was illegally acquired.
Razaq said the land was originally designated for the construction of a secretariat and parking lot of the civil service clinic, but that it was unlawfully allocated to a private firm — Asa Investments Limited — without any record of payment to the state government.
However, Bukola Saraki, Nigeria’s former senate president who also served as Governor of Kwara from 2003 to 2011, said his late father lawfully acquired the parcel of land from the state government.
“The property had been rightfully allocated to my late father under the name of one of his companies, Asa Investment Limited, since the 1980s and contrary to the claim of the governor, the land was properly allocated and a Right of Occupancy title issued on it,” Saraki said.
VIDEO: #Kwara govt demolishing #Saraki's 'political home' pic.twitter.com/XLcICnV4Uc
— TheCable (@thecableng) January 2, 2020
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