Daar Communications Plc, owners of the African Independent Television and Ray Power FM has said the 48-hour demolition notice to remove its property given by the Rivers State Government was not properly served to its management.

The Head of Centre, Daar Communications Plc, Mrs Remi Olu-Akerele, said this while speaking to a popular radio station in Port Harcourt monitored by our correspondent.

Recall that the Permanent Secretary, state Ministry of Works, Mrs Ebere Dennis-Emenike, had given the order in a letter dated March 20, 2023.

The letter asked that company to remove its property which the state claimed was on the right of way of its proposed housing project in the GRA Phase 5 axis of Port Harcourt.

But Mrs Olu-Akerele said the notice was pasted on the wall of a building housing its transmitter and spotted by a security guard working with the company.

She, however, appealed to the state government to have a rethink over the planned demolition, especially as the matter was already in court and a date fixed for hearing.

Olu-Akerele also disclosed that 80 per cent of AIT and Ray Power FM workforce were members of Ozuoba community, saying any such demolition would result in job losses for the locals.

She, however, noted that they had instituted a court action against the state government and urged her to wait for the decision of the court.

She said, “Well, I just want to appeal to the governor to please have a rethink, if not for the owners of Daar Communications, but for the people of this locality that are working here. The workforce here is about 80 per cent from the community.”

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