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RSG Cautions On Land Within GPHC Axis
The Rivers State Govern
ment has urged land developers not to embark on any developmental project within the Rukpokwu axis around the Greater Port Harcourt City (GPHC) , without approval or clearance from the GPHC authority or the Ministry of Urban development.
This is aimed at forestalling any unpleasant consequences that may arise in the future in terms of demolition that would be carried out, in the event that developers did not heed to instruction in respect of the planning and logistics in the GPHC development programme.
Handing down the instruction when speaking to newsmen in Port Harcourt on the recent development within the Rukpokwu community, especially with the peaceful demonstration by women of the community on land issue, the Sole Administrator of GPHC, Mrs Aleruchi Gookey-Gam said it will be wrong for anybody to go and develop property within the area without getting approval and clearance from government.
Mrs. Cookey-Gam explained that land and roads within the area of Greater Port Harcourt are yet to be demarcated, adding that it will be meaningless for people to build houses any how within the area, which could be demolished by government later, if such building falls within the GPHC enclaves.
She further said that government has not acquired the said land in dispute, and will not use force without going through the process of acquisition and compensation.
According to her, all that government was trying to do was to advise and prevent people from developing, when the area has not been demarcated, so as to avoid unpleasant waste of resources.
Corlins Walter