The Centre for Human Rights and Advocacy in Africa Network has strongly condemned the demolition of the Margaret Lawrence University Teaching Hospital (MLUTH) multi-billion naira Cancer Centre by officials of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Saturday.
The University Teaching Hospital, a world-class facility, is situated within the upscale River Park Estate in Abuja. The construction of the Cancer Centre started a year ago, with massive construction work ongoing at the project site. However, on Saturday, September 13, 2025, bulldozers of the FCTA rolled into River Park Estate, housing the gigantic University hospital facility and pulled the structure down to rubble.
In a statement co-signed by its Executive Director, Mr Henry Abba, and Director of Programmes, Michael Ikwebe, the civil society group described the demolition as “high-handed, insensitive, barbaric and unacceptable” and therefore condemned the action of the FCT Administration in its entirety.
“The whole incident has brought about panic in the estate, and at this point, nobody knows what is going on, because what was said in the report of the FCT Minister was that all the undeveloped portions are what they want to repossess.
“But what we have in this instance is a project that has been commissioned for over a year and has been actively under development for the past year,” the statement read.
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