Kaduna govt set to demolish my house – Senator Hunkuyi

Senator Suleiman Uthman Hunkuyi (Kaduna North) has cried out over what he described as an attempt by the Kaduna State Government to demolish his house at No.18a Inuwa Wada Road, Unguwar Rimi, Kaduna.

The Kaduna Geographical Information Service (KADGIS) had in February sent a bill to the senator’s personal residence informing him of a 24-year accumulated ground rent since 1995 which stood at over N1.4 million and slammed him with a fine of N30 million in addition.

This was a few days after his property on 11b Sambo Road, Kaduna, which was used as the secretariat of a faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state was demolished on grounds that the ground rent on it has not been paid since 2010.

The Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service, KADIRS, in a letter dated 28-05-2018 and signed by its executive director, revenue operations, Ango Liman, said the amount for payment is late and as such penalties and interest would be computed as stipulated by law.

Hunkuyi, in a tweet said the Kaduna State Government “is set to demolish my personal house despite a valid and subsisting court order.”

He said the matter “is still pending in the High Court of Justice Kaduna as I tweet this but the government is bent on carrying on its atrocity.”

Officials of KADIRS could however not be reached for their comments.