Abia State Government on Monday stated that work will soon commence on the abandoned and dilapidated seven-storey Enyimba Hotel building in Aba.
On this note, the government has issued a quit notice to all street urchins illegally occupying the building.
The state government noted with sadness that “over the years, all manner of miscreants and illegal squatters have turned the place to their abode.”
According to a press release signed by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, Mr. Godwin Adindu, the action was part of government’s efforts to recover and revive public property in the state.
The release added that as part of government’s policy on Aba Urban Renewal, “the state government will be embarking on a massive infrastructural rehabilitation of government buildings and all abandoned projects in the Aba metropolis.”
The release read in part, “Government is therefore serving notices to all the illegal occupants in the building to vacate the place within one week, as the relevant government agencies are ready to commence a massive rehabilitation on the building.
Government is also using the opportunity to direct all illegal squatters in all government buildings or premises in the state to quickly vacate the places before the arrival of the government functionaries who have been mandated to commence work on such structures.”
