UZOR KALU'S DISTRAIN, LAGOS EXPLAINS!

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THE Lagos State government has responded to their decision to seal the home of the former Abia State governor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu in Park View Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos. A statement signed by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Aderemi Ibirogba, said Kalu’s failure to pay statutory annual land use fees was the reason they sealed his house.

   Kalu had accused the Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, of pursuing a vendetta mission because of his threat to sue the state over the deportation of Igbo from Lagos. “When I said I vowed to take him to court over his deportation of Ndi Igbo from Lagos, he told some people that he would seal my house for threatening to take him to court.” 

   But the state government through the Commissioner for Information and Strategy stated their side of the story: “The attention of the Lagos State government has been drawn to a misleading claim by a businessman, Mr. Orji Uzor Kalu, that his Ikoyi home has been sealed off following a threat to sue the Lagos State government over an unrelated matter.

   “We wish to state, for the avoidance of doubt that nothing could be further from the truth. The fact is that Kalu’s property in Park View Estate, Ikoyi was distrained pursuant to Section 40 of the Revenue Administration Law of Lagos State for failure to pay the statutory annual land use charge despite three separate notices delivered to the said property.

   “As a government driven by law and process, the Lagos State government will ordinarily expect all law abiding residents to discharge their responsibilities to the state. If, in spite of failing to do so, Kalu wants to give ethnic colouration to a routine performance of its duties by an agency of government, which in this case is the Land Use Charge Office, under the Ministry of Finance, he is welcome to do so.

   “However, it should be noted that when the issue was brought to the attention of the governor on Tuesday evening, he directed the agency to unseal the property and that an additional 14 days grace period be given to Kalu to pay the said charge.”