The government is being sued by a real estate corporation for allegedly failing to compensate it after its office building was demolished for the National Cathedral project.
According to Waterstone Realty Limited, the government has been delaying paying out the promised compensation for at least two years despite repeated requests.
“Going to court is what we are currently deciding on,” Abdul Hafiz, an official of the real estate company told state-owned Daily Graphic.
He claimed that numerous discussions on the future course of action between the legal staff and company management have resulted in a clear preference for going to court.
“If we still do not hear from the government. It is our last option,” Hafiz told the newspaper.
The business said that the two-story structure brought them $84,000 in annual rent.
The government was required to return $54,000 to the tenant at the time after requesting that they leave the property.
Since the demolition, the government has kept a startlingly low profile about the payment of compensation.
The business claimed that multiple appeals to Attorney-General Godfred Dame have also been unsuccessful.
The company informed Graphic Online that the Lands Commission wrote to them about plans to assign another property on a 1.26-acre block of land at the Ridge residential neighbourhood at some time in 2020, but that too has not occurred.
