They have also petitioned the Inspector General of Police and copied the National Human Rights Commission, Department of State Services and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps alleging victimisation and complaining on alleged illegal order by the governor directing the officers of the security agencies to force them out of their homes.
They said the houses were bought from the state Housing Corporation under a mortgage agreement with Primary Mortgage Institution (PMI) scheme with the payment schedule spanning between 15 and 25 years.
Besides, they said there is a pending court action they instituted against the state government, hence for the government to take any action on such amounted to contempt of court.
The threat is coming on the heels of the new dimension that the crisis in the estate took last week with the delivery by the Housing Corporation of revocation letters to some landlords of the estate.
The state government had on August 6 evicted some homeowners in the estate accusing them of default in the payment on the houses that they acquired on mortgage arrangement.
The government later gave them some time to pay up failure which they would face eviction following which some of the landlords went to court to seek enforcement of their rights.
Among homeowners who received revocation letters last week are the Chairman of Irewolede Residents Association, Ayo Orebe; and Mrs. Bolu Fayemi-Ayodele, elder sister of former Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi.
Orebe disclosed that sources revealed that revocation letters were ready as punishment for all landlords who are parties to the legal action they instituted against the state government.
Fayemi’s former Senior Special Assistant on Research and Documentation, Hakeem Jamiu, said that he received a call from the General Manager of Ekiti State Housing Corporation, Babasoji Awe, informing him that his revocation letter was ready for dispatch to his house.
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