By Stanley Onyekwere
To help curb the indiscriminate sale and purchase of land in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the Mandate Secretary, Area Council Services Secretariat (ACSS), Ibrahim Abubakar has revealed plans to establish Zonal offices to tackle the menace at the grassroot level.
He reiterated the FCT Administration had stopped all graded chiefs and nobody is allowed to sell any portion of the land within the FCT, apart from the honourable Minister of the FCT, who is the only person or authority that has the right to allocate or revoke any land in the Territory
Abubakar, who spoke at ACSS 2022 end of the pear press briefing, noted that the FCTA is on top of the situation as some of this chiefs are been relived of there chieftaincy and others suspended because of the act.
He said: “I Want to use this medium to tell those in FCT to meet those in charge of land, and the administration has approved way in consideration of establishment of zonal offices to curtail indiscriminate sales and purchase of land in FCT.
“So, the administration is not taking this likely, we don’t encourage this and their is a severe punishment for anyone found wanting having faced the law and at the end you will stand to loose what ever you are proud of as a village chief in the community”.
However, the ACSS boss noted that the cases of insecurity in the Territory has reduced due to collaborations with security agencies, and as such, the inhabitants of the Territory can peacefully go to bed.
He added that drones are being deployed in strategic locations to beef up in the territory.
“The FCT has beef up security measures in the territory in collaboration with service chief hence the cases of kidnapping and banditry has reduced because of the pro activeness of the 2 ministers of the FCT.
“You can go to bed and sleep, the security situation has improved, lots of drones are around in FCT”.
