A property owner in Akwa Ibom State has appealed to Governor Umo Eno to review the compensation paid for his property acquired for the state’s Medical City project, saying the amount has left him financially devastated and emotionally exhausted.
In a Facebook post on Sunday, the property owner, Peter Lambert, said the Akwa Ibom State Government, through the Ministry of Lands and Town Planning, paid him ₦3.7 million for a property he claims cost him nearly ₦8 million to acquire and develop.
“Dear Gov Eno, in life, I’ve tried my best to get certain things and am still struggling. This is the condition your Government, through the Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Lands, has put me (at Ekpemiong Itak, where you are building Medical City), due to poor compensation for a site that took all my savings between service year (2021) and post-service year (2025),” he wrote.
Ekpemiong Itak is a community along the Uyo-Ikot Ekpene Road.
A side view of the Mr Lambert’s building
