The Director-General, National Council of Art and Crafts , Olusegun Runsewe, on Friday said he is being victimised by some ‘powerful forces’ because of his ‘patriotic desire’ to protect national assets under his watch.court orderThe judge, Jude Okeke, said Mr Runsewe disobeyed a court order made on December 15, 2017 over a filed case on the sealing of the Arts and Crafts village in Abuja.
The NCAC DG said the Art and Craft Village valued at N9.8 billion was turned into ”a den of hooligans and criminals” who engaged in illicit drug sales and illegal arms activities and poised security threat “not only to Abuja residents but to foreigners”. He also said, “the Art and Craft village belongs to the Federal Republic of Nigeria; it does not belong to me but to the Nigerian people, so I would be failing in my duties as a public officer and appointee of government If I cannot protect government property to which I was mandated to oversee.”
“I will do my best within the ambits of the law to secure and protect Nigerian cultural assets including those outside the shores of Nigeria.”