Court Seals Off Abuja Banex Plaza
The popular Banex
Plaza located in Wuse 2, Abuja, was, yesterday, sealed off on the alleged order
of a magistrate court.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Abuja
Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) had gone to court asking for vacation of
the premises by Banex Plaza tenants.
Mr Chibuike Nzedinma, chairman, Banex
Plaza Wuse 2 Tenants Association, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that
the closure was uncalled for.
Nzedinma said that the board failed to officially
notify them about the said court order.
“Some weeks back, the AEPB told us that
they were going to use the plaza as a mobile court.
“But we could not see any
mobile court on the said date, I personally went round to check but could not
see, surprisingly, today (Friday) they sealed off some of our shops,” he said.
The chairman, who sued for calm, said they would seek redress in court for such
an order to be vacated.
Also, Mrs Nkoli Unachukwu, a tenant, said that such
closure was detrimental to economic development of the country.
Unachukwu said
that they had lost millions of Naira due to the closure.
She called on the
Federal Government to intervene to prevent shut down of business in the plaza.
AEPB had allegedly demanded to use the premises for mobile court.
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