By Usman Shuaibu
The minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, Mal Muhammed Musa Bello has advised applicants for land in the FCT to approach estate developers who have already put some infrastructure in place.
Bello spoke yesterday at the 20th edition of the Scorecard Series of the Buhari administration in Abuja.
He said land is no longer available for allocation in the areas that people would like to build, especially around the city center and the Municipal areas.
All the land in phases 1, 2, and 3 have been allocated, he said, and admitted that one of the most difficult assignments of the FCT Minister is land allocation and administration.
He said land in Abuja is no longer going to be easy as it was before, especially that the whole idea of land is for you to build, and as such the template has to change in accordance with the new realities.
The infrastructure has not been put in place in the new phases that are being opened up, making development in such phases difficult.
He said the FCT administration now allows the private sector to develop estates and provide some of the needed infrastructure within those estates, because it is better and easier to get land in an estate that is already developed.
“There is no need to get land in areas that you may not be able to develop even in the next twenty or so years,” he said.
