Preparatory to the planned land revocation in the serviced areas of Phases I, II and III of the Federal Capital City, Abuja, the FCT Administration has taken inventory of the affected plots of land.
The Director of Land Administration, FCT, Adamu Jibrin Hussaini, made this disclosure recently in his office, while receiving on study tour, Master Students in Sustainable Urban Development from the Centre for Human Settlements and Urban Development of the Federal University of Technology, Minna.
The director recalled that advertisements were placed in
three national dailies in line with the Federal Capital Territory Executive
Committee (FCT EXCO) approval that the Department of Land Administration
commences the process of revocation of titles in respect of undeveloped plot(s)
of land in serviced districts of the Phases I, II and III of the Federal
Capital City.
According to him, the Department of Land Administration carried out the public
announcement on the 31stJuly 2019 warning allottees of plot(s) of land within
the Phases I, II and III of the Federal Capital City, Abuja (FCC) 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
Thursday, October 31, 2019.
He said by that publication, the affected allottees had 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 Nigeria 2004.
Hussaini said the Authority has taken inventory of such
undeveloped plots but waiting for the expiration of the grace period. Daily
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