Dimapur, May 6 (EMN): The Kohima Village Council has cautioned against public properties being allowed to be “taken over by vested private parties simply because they are in power.” The village council’s Chairman Dr. Neiphi Kire issued a press release on Saturday referring to a news items about “the exchange of Capital Convention Centre near Secretariat Complex, Kohima and NPF headquarters building near Hotel Ashok Japfu.”
The Kohima Village Council said to have undertaken ‘physical verification’ of the two buildings. The council stated that it was surprised with the glaring difference between the two buildings, in terms of size and space and the factual comparison is nothing like what was alluded by the NPF signatories, the press release stated. "The NPF building is just a modest building with few office rooms, small conference rooms under renovation and a small compound which can hardly park ten vehicles.”
The Capital Convention Centre on the other hand, the council chairman stated, is a much bigger building with well furnished conference rooms, lodging facilities and ample parking space; it has a compound big enough to host weddings and other such mega events, it stated.
In fact, it stated, the centre has been organising such events from time to time and is serving the public well. It was Chief Minister Shurhozelie Liezietsu himself who is behind the construction of the Capital Convention Centre during his previous stint as Urban Minister, the council stated. ‘The public is indeed grateful to him for this noble service,’ the council stated.
“It is to be noted that with regard to the comparism (sic) of the two aforesaid buildings, the NPF signatories have stated on record that, ‘the activities that were carried out at the capital Convention Centre could be conveniently carried out at the NPF Office building as it was also as big as the convention centre’.”
This is incorrect and ‘certainly far from the truth,’ the council said. “It is most unfortunate that our eminent politicians would resort to such alternative facts (lies) for political gains at the cost of the public.”
The council expressed confidence that the chief minister will not “rush into any hasty decision without ascertaining the facts for himself.”
“If public properties are allowed to be taken over by vested private parties simply because they are in power, there will be hardly any worthwhile public properties left in our state in due course of time. We hope that our honourable chief minister will continue to place public good before party interest,” the press release added.
