The Management of the Lafia-based private radio station Breeze FM, has dragged the Nasarawa state governor to court over demolition of the station on May 20.
The Nasarawa State Government claimed that the station was demolished because the building violated land approval laws by citing the media outfit in a residential area.
The commissioner for information in the state Abdulhameed Kwara explained that it was carried out to avert radioactive radiation on people living around the station.
The Executive Director of the station Mr Nawani Aboki, at a press briefing in Lafia, said that management was compelled to go to court because government had ignored overtures by well-meaning Nigerians, to apologize for its action.
The Management of Breeze FM however dismissed government’s claim that it demolished the structure to avert radioactive radiation on people living around the station.
Aboki during the Press briefing said “Our lawyers are already working on our papers and will soon file them in court. The general mood in Nasarawa has propelled us to seek legal redress to stem the rising cases of tyranny and dictatorship in the state; I wonder how government arrived at that lame reason. There are numerous masts of various communication network providers that dot every space around residential areas. One is even standing in government house. They accused us of operating in a residential area on a plot of land approved for residential purposes, but the question is, why didn’t they ask us to relocate instead of demolishing the station and its equipment?”
