Minister of the Federal Capital territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike on Wednesday declared that he’s not carried away by emotions in the discharge of his duties.
Wike was responding to an appeal by the Senior Pastor of Family Worship Centre, Abuja, Sarah Omakwu not to allocate the Jabi Lake recreation area for private development.
Omakwu made the appeal in a video shared on her Instagram page on Sunday, where she was seen kneeling on the pulpit while addressing the minister.
“I cannot fight the minister of the FCT. I cannot. But I go on my knees as a mother in this land that Jabi Lake Recreation Centre should not be given to anybody,” she said.
Responding during his monthly press briefing in Abuja, Wike said: “I’m human in this government and you don’t expect everybody to be happy, if majority are happy, then I’m happy. Some people don’t understand what’s going on, you should ask questions.
“You talk about the woman kneeling down and begging, I’m not carried away by such emotions, begging to do what? Who owns Jabi Lake?
“How does it become your own? First of all, I came on board that place was given to a company that said they want to turn it to an entertainment place but they have turned it into shanties.
“One of these days I went there and said this can’t be, there is a hotel and who would come to stay in that hotel when there are shanties all over. You don’t know if there are criminals.”
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