NBTE vows to sustain suit against trespassers on Abuja property

TThis move, he said, was designed by DB Mangal to HE National Board for enter another court procedure Technical Education against the NBTE and sway the ( NBTE) has vowed to pursue sympathy of the court. the litigation against tres“The bone of contention is the passers of its properties in the property popularly known as Federal Capital Territory ( FCT), Murjanatu House, which has Abuja, to logical conclusion, as been declared by an Abuja the intruders continue to vioHigh Court in 2007 to be the late court orders. property of NBTE and duly NBTE alleged that those who handed over in 2019 by the encroached into its property Special Presidential had been collecting rents on it Investigation Panel on illegally, against the earlier Recovery of Public Property. judgment delivered by the “NBTE’S attempt to recover it court in its favour. in 2021 was thwarted by the Executive Secretary ( ES) of agents of D. B. Mangal. The matNBTE, Prof. Idris Bugaje, stated, ter is now before the FCT High yesterday: “The attention of Court and, as law- abiding citiNBTE has been dra wn to zens, the NBTE is awaiting the attempts by the agents of D. B. outcome of the litigation,” Mangal to smear its name by Bugaje said. claiming that the NBTE According to the ES, NBTE destroyed some of its buildwants to make it clear that it ings situated at the Illegally has never and would not take occupied Plot 445 Zambezi the laws into its hands, but Crescent, Maitama, Abuja, shall allow the due process for whose rents D. B. Mangal has the enforcement of an earlier been collecting illegally court order to continue to its against court order.” logical conclusion.