FCTA to support states improve land administration

By Stanley Onyekwere

The Federal Capital Territory Administration has pledged its support for States in their efforts to upgrade their Geographic Information System (GIS) for efficient land administration.
This pledge was made by the FCT, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, when a delegation led by the Commissioner of Lands and Survey of Adamawa State paid a courtesy visit to the FCTA.
Bello noted that i has been the policy of the FCT to assist other sub-nationals in the country in the upgrade of their land management processes.
“The issue of digitalization and modernizing the land system has already been agreed by the National Council of Land, Housing and Urban Development and many states have gone very far. In the FCT, it’s common knowledge that we are now at a very advanced stage.
“So it has always been a policy of the FCT Administration to support other sub-nationals within the Nigerian federation to be able to upgrade their system. So, I assure you that we will also continue with that policy and provide you all the needed support,” he stressed.
According to him, land was one of the greatest assets that all governments across the country have by virtue of the Land Use Decree, it was very important that all land issues were well documented and digitalized.
Speaking earlier, the Adamawa State Commissioner of Lands and Survey Alhaji Ibrahim Mijinyawa Yayaji, said that his delegation was in the FCT to seek for technical support for the upgrading of the Adamawa State GIS.
According to him: “we have our own baby GIS but we feel that definitely, we need to upgrade and there is no other place that we feel we can get this kind of assistance better than here in the FCT. That is why we are here to pay this call and also to make a plea to the FCT Administration so that we can have that assistance from you.”
Also present during the courtesy visit were the Director Urban and Regional Planning FCTA, Zaliha’u Ahmed, Director, AGIS, Dr Isa Jalo and other Directors of the FCTA.