Plateau Donates Over 50 Hectares Of Land To Federal Govt Agencies

Plateau State Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Town Planning, Mr Yakubu Datti, has said that the state government has earmarked over 50 hectares of land for the construction of Federal Government Offices in the state.
He made this known during a routine inspection organized and conducted by the Ministry on Thursday, in Jos.
Datti, while fielding questions from the press, commended the state government for taking steps towards the actualization of requests made by the federal government agencies.
He said there had been several requests from Government Agencies seeking space for the construction of either their barracks or offices in the state.
“So far, we have inspected cumulatively about 40 to 50 hectares of land, across different locations in the state.
“This inspection will also be ongoing to enable us accommodate most of the requests that were placed before the state government.
“Today the Ministry of Lands, Survey and Town Planning undertook an inspection of the Lands available.
“Because we have an outstanding instruction from His Excellency to look at the available lands in the state.
“The state has received various requests from Federal government Agencies for land to build their head offices, operational offices and barracks,” he said.
Datti said that the inspection was with the intent of eventually handing over the lands to the necessary beneficiaries.
“So today we undertook an inspection tour of the land available, we started with the land that was revoked, but belongs to the state government.
“With the intention of giving it out to federal government agencies, we also went round schools to see where we can find suitable lands.
“We completed the tour at the land on site that has been purchased by the state government and donated to the Nigerian Christian pilgrims board and the Nigerian Bar Association.
“We also carried out this inspection to herald the formal handing over of the property to the beneficiaries.
The Commissioner said the effort would benefit the state because over 20 government parastatal would have their presence in the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the National for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), National Teachers Institue (NTI), JAMB and NDLEA were among the government agencies to benefit from the gesture.