Our stance on demolition in FCT ― Minister

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Mohammad Musa Bello has thrown his weight behind the task team on city sanitation, saying that the ongoing demolition exercise in Abuja is to correct infractions of the Master plan.

Mallam Bello stated this much on Wednesday in Abuja while fielding questions from newsmen on his stance on the ongoing demolition exercises in Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja.

He stated that; “Is something that occurs as part of the daily work of enforcement. Unfortunately, in the recent past particularly during COVID-19 when most of the inspectorate staff were not able to cover the city, a lot of people went and started building illegal structures.

“The policies and guidelines for building in FCT are very clear and well documented, the laws are there.

“So what we are doing is basically to remove infringements on the issue of compensation will not arise because everything is illegal. For instance, people decide to build on the road corridors and in most cases some of these buildings you will see that the administration might have given many notices to them but they still went ahead to build the illegal structures, so we keep demolishing.

“But there are some areas as part of our urban renewal and upgrade, if we need to take off building either to expand the road corridors or create facilities for essential services for social services obviously this once will be compensated. It has always been happening”, Bello stressed.

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