Sokoto Seals ADC Office Pending Ownership Clarification

The Sokoto State Government has sealed an office occupied by the African Democratic Congress while it seeks clarification on the property’s ownership from the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, Commissioner for Lands and Housing Nasiru Dantsoho said. Dantsoho said the closure was intended to prevent further disturbances and protect lives and property following a recent confrontation involving ADC supporters and suspected troublemakers. The accounts did not provide further details about the confrontation. The commissioner said the state reviewed the certificate of occupancy and other property documents and found the premises registered to the defunct Savannah Bank, with no transfer of ownership recorded. He said the government had contacted the NDIC, which he described as custodian of the property, to establish who owns it now, but had not received a response. The government’s account of the records and its inquiry comes from Dantsoho. The property documents and the NDIC’s response were not presented in the reports, and current legal ownership was not independently established. The central unresolved matter is whether ownership has since been transferred or otherwise...