FCTA Warns Developers Against Land Encroachment

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA)  has warned land speculators in Kafe District of the FCTA  against encroaching on other peoples’ lands.

Mr Hope Thompson, a Town Planner with the Development Control Department in the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), gave the warning in an interview with newsmen in Abuja last Tuesday.

He said that private developers at Kafe District, a virgin land located around Gwarimpa Estate in the FCT, had formed the “habit of not developing their property within the boundary allotted to them.

“They encroach on other peoples’ lands, public utility and flood-prone areas,” he said, warning that the FCTA would no longer condone the act.

“We have commenced daily monitoring and enforcement to ensure that developers follow the normal procedure to avert distortion of the Abuja Master Plan.”

Thompson said the FCTA had also started removing illegal fences erected on green lands and other people’s plots.

He said the FCTA demolished some illegal buildings and drinking joint on the road corridor at Mbora District as well as shanties and private offices made of containers that were erected on a planned bus terminal.