The Federal Housing Authority (FHA) has refuted reports that it has reallocated the Gwarinpa Police Station, adding that the report was baseless and untrue.

In a statement, the management said the allegation that the managing director of the Federal Housing Authority had allocated the Gwarinpa Police Station to one of his friends and that FHA planned to relocate the police station to Dawaki was not true.

Speaking further on the issue, the FHA stated that “The true position is that the present police station was temporarily allocated to the Nigeria Police in 1995 to provide security when Gwarinpa Estate was under construction. In the master plan provision was made for a police station at 522 Road, near the Catholic Church and another land allocated to the police at 695 Road.

“With the expedient need to expand its operational base in the head office due to the huge volume of projects in the Renewed Hope projects that the Authority would soon be embarking on and the space constraints expected with the impending fresh recruitments due to the projects, the Federal Housing Authority approached the Nigeria Police, National Identity Commission and the FCT Water Board, Gwaripna, to give up the temporary accommodations given to them, to enable FHA to build 3-floors office space with enough parking space for its staff and customers.

“The authority has been in talks with the police authorities and has agreed to develop the land at 695 Road Gwarinpa for them to move into, from the bungalow they are presently occupying, a project that would be costing FHA about N205 million.

“The police have given us the drawing of the building they want and our professionals are already working on achieving the project.

“We state clearly here that the Federal Housing Authority lacks the power to determine where a police station could be located or relocated. It is also more damnable and ridiculous that Ahmed Isah could tell a global audience that he planted fifth columnists within the rank of FHA that give him false information about the authority,” the FHA said.