Even as he bade his long goodbye at age 86, January 4th, frontline
author, late Chief Cyprian Ekewnsi probably did so with a heavy heart,
despite his literary accomplishment. A sad victim of Mallam Nasir
El-Rufai’s hysterical land revocation drive, while as FCT minister, the late
literary icon, before he breathed his last on November 4th, 2007,
literally went down on his knees severally, not minding the age gap,
before the former minister, begging to be allowed his only property in
the federal capital territory, an undeveloped plot of land, which
ownership El-Rufai revoked in 2006, in a manner that was not only
befuddling, but challenged logic and common sense.Acquired in 1992, the plot of land (Re: Certificate of Occupancy NO. FCT/ABU/AN: 2233), which is located at 272 Utako District, Cadastral Zone B5, according to available documents Saturday Sun chanced into, was paid for after due diligence, when the late foremost writer was federal director of Information and later, chairman of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria.
