[FILES] Wreckage of illegal buildings demolished in the FCT Task Force. PHOTO: LUCY ELUKPO-ATEKO
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the demolition was led by a combined team of FCT Ministerial Taskforce on City Sanitation, Department of Development Control, Department of Security Services and other relevant agencies.Mr Ikharo Attah, Chairman of the taskforce, said the operation was in line with the FCT ministerial directive to remove every contraventions and illegal buildings within the nation’s capital.
He said no local chiefs has the authority to sell lands or transfer any valid title to buyers of such land, in line with the provisions of the Land Use Act.The chairman noted that the exercise was a quick intervention to avert further distortion of the city’s development plans, as well as rescue desperate business men and women from economic waste.
He added that the shortcut process undertaken by the investors had not only infringed heavily on extant laws, but distorted Abuja Master plan, while leading into colossal economic waste.” FCT minister had briefed the Directors of Development Control, Security Services and Directorate of Road Traffic Services and gave them matching order to stop what he termed “extreme illegality”.
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