Obaseki Adds To Unemployment Rate, Demolishes Multimillion Naira Hotel in Benin.

By ABIODUN JIMOH

Scores of staff working at the T. Latifa hotel owned by All Progressives Congress (APC) member, Chief Tony Adun also known as Kabaka have been thrown into labour markets as Edo State Government finally carried out its demolition threat.

The hotel which has been centre of feud between the state government and its owner, Kabaka, one of the APC National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole loyalists was demolished for violating building laws as the structure sits across a road in the Ugbor-Amagba axis of Oredo local government area of the state.

With this development, staff of the hotel who were chased out by security operatives in order to carry out the demolition could be seeing asking for the way forward as their means of livelihood have been destroyed by the state government in spite of interventions by highly placed people from Benin.

The hotel building was reduced to rubbles on Wednesday afternoon, after an injunction secured by Mr. Adun against the exercise was vacated by the state government.

The government penciled the structure for demolition, saying that it was illegal, and without an approved building plan for a hotel and sitting across a road.

Also, it was said that the deed of transfer being paraded by Mr. Adun was also not registered with the state government, according to court papers filed by Solicitor General of Edo State, Oluwole Iyamu SAN.

Bulldozers and caterpillars were mobilized to the site for the exercise while security operatives mounted guard to ensure the process was not disrupted by thugs in the area loyal to Mr. Adun.

The leader of the security team cordoned off the area and urged residents and shop owners around the area not to panic while the exercise lasted.