FCTA Takes Inventory of Undeveloped Plots in Serviced Areas
Preparatory to the planned land
revocation in the serviced areas of the Phases I, II & III of the
Federal Capital City, Abuja, the FCT Administration has taken inventory
of the affected plots of land.
The FCT Director of Land Administration,
Adamu Jibrin Hussaini made this disclosure recently in his office,
while hosting post graduate students in Sustainable Urban Development
from the Centre for Human Settlements and Urban Development of the
Federal University of Technology, Minna that were in Abuja on study
tour.
The group, led by the Director of the
Centre, Professor Mohammed Bashir Nuhu, was received by Hussaini,
accompanied by the Director of the Abuja Geographic Information Systems,
Dr. Isa Ibrahim Jalo.
The Director recalled that advertisement
was placed in three national dailies in line with the Federal Capital
Territory Executive Committee’s approval that the Department of Land
Administration commence the process of revocation of titles in respect
of undeveloped plots of land in serviced districts of the Phases I, II
& III of the Federal Capital City, Abuja.
According to him, the Department of Land
Administration has carried out the public announcement on July 31, 2019
warning allottees of plot(s) of land within the Phases I, II & III
of the Federal Capital City, Abuja that have been serviced with
infrastructure to develop them or have them revoked within three months
of the publication, which is from Wednesday, July 31, 2019 and to expire
on Thursday, October 31, 2019.
He emphasised that with the publication,
the affected allottees have been reminded that failure to carry out
improvement or development of such plot(s) contravenes the terms of
Rights of Occupancy accepted by such allottees, as well as the provision
of Section 28(5) (a & b) of the Land Use Act N0. 6 of 1978, Cap.
L5, Laws of the Federation of the Nigeria 2004.
Hussaini revealed that the Authority has
taken inventory of such undeveloped plots but waiting for the
expiration of the grace period to finalise the list.
“The Department of Development Control
has data of all developed plots in the Federal Capital City because no
individual or corporate organization can develop without its requisite
approval,” Hussaini said.
Also speaking at the occasion, Jalo said
that Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is the only tool that can
drive and sustain any modern city across the globe.
He disclosed that AGIS management was
currently working to expand the scope and use of GIS in the Territory
and sought for collaboration in data gathering with the Federal
University of Technology, Minna, Centre for Human Settlements and Urban
Development which can be part of their academic pursuit.
Earlier, the Director of the Federal
University of Technology, Minna Centre for Human Settlements and Urban
Development, Professor Mohammed Bashir Nuhu remarked that the Centre was
established in 2003 by the University in collaboration with UN-Habitat,
Nairobi Kenya, to assist in Nigerian Development Planning in the Human
Settlement, Development and Management, Urban Governance and Sustainable
Urban Development.
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