The Federal Capital Territory Administration will demolish about 140 illegal structures in Guzape District.
Chief Town Planning Officer, FCT Department of Development Control, Mr. Thompson Hope, made the disclosure while briefing newsmen shortly after inspecting the illegal structures built on service corridors in Kuruduma II and Kpaduma II communities of Guzape on Wednesday in Abuja.
Hope said the department had earlier issued a seven-day ultimatum to the residents of the affected structures in the area, stressing that demolition would commence as soon as the ultimatum expires on November 25. He said the development control had marked some of the illegal structures for demolition as far back as two or three years ago.
He added that the department had carried out several sensitisation campaigns to the indigenous communities for many years, but they had refused to abide by the FCTA regulations on land allocation. He said the department held several meetings with the leaders of the indigenous peoples on the need for them to stop selling plots of land.
“We have, several times, warned the indigenous communities, including the local chiefs, that all the lands in FCT are vested in the FCT Minister and that they should desist from selling lands. Some people are so desperate and desirous to build, thinking that before government takes action they will either make one or two profits out of it. These illegal structures are already built on service corridors where plot allottees are desirous to develop their properties; but because of this development along the corridor, they cannot take possession of their plots. Hope said.
