By Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
A former staff member of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Mr. Rasheed Ezekhagbe, has dragged the management of the Academy before a Kaduna High Court over alleged illegal eviction from his residential quarters.
Ezekhagbe told journalists in Kaduna that he had secured a court injunction restraining the NDA authorities from evicting him from the house pending the determination of the case.
However, he alleged that despite the injunction, some soldiers invaded his residence at midnight and forcefully threw out his belongings.
He said, “I was still relying on the subsisting court order when, around midnight, soldiers stormed the house, broke into the premises, and threw out all my property. It was a traumatic experience for me and my family.”
The former staff, who claimed to have served the Academy for several years before his disengagement described the act as “a clear case of impunity and disregard for the rule of law.”
“While I was in the service of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), I had a government quarter, and by the monetizing policy of the former President Olusegun Obasanjo administration, they decided to sell all the government houses, and that’s number nine, Lokoja close, Barnawa.
“Where I got an offer which I paid for in stages of two weeks, after the offer you’re supposed to pay 10% of the offer as an acceptance fee and then you pay the other in two other installments which I did but by the time I retired on the 1st of March 2021 and by June 2022 the Nigerian Defence Academy wrote a vacation order to me that I should vacate the premises”.
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