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9,532 People Risk Loosing Properties, Lands In Abuja – FCT Minister

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December 13, 2024

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By Philip Tayo

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, Nyesom Wike has said that a total of 9,532 residents of the Nation’s capital are at risk of loosing their lands and properties, declaring that none of his friends or family members would be spared if they refused to do the proper thing by regularizing their papers on time.

The Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media to the Honourable Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, Lere Olayinka, stated the above on Friday, warning those who failed to regularized their land allocations within the capital city to lose their properties.

According to Lere Olayinka, he said, his boss, “Nyesom Wike has warned that, he is ready to revoke the lands of even his friends, wife, and enemies if they default in regularizing their land allocation within the FCT on time.

Appearing on Arise TV’s Morning Show on Friday morning, Olayinka disclosed “that 9,532 people owed the government for failing to regularized their land allocation within the FCT.

Continuing, Olayinka said: “a few days ago, advertisements were placed in many newspapers listing the names of those owing the government on lands. There are 9,532 people who have collected allocations from the government and have not paid for the lands; those names have been published.

“One of the people whose name was mentioned was former President Ibrahim Babangida, and another person was former Benue Governor Samuel Ortom. Ortom is a very close friend and political ally of the FCT Minister; his name was published.

“What he is saying is that he would not deal with you based on friendship but based on doing the right thing. He is saying that if you have land genuinely, even if you are his enemy, you will not have any issue. But if you don’t have genuine ownership of land, even if you are his friend or wife, you will lose the land.

“I’m saying this again: those whose names have been published and are among those 9,532 people should go and do what they need to do because when the government now chooses to revoke their allocation, that is when they will come to TV stations and social media activists, calling those who did law in the night to speak for them on social media.

“They have the option of regularizing their ownership now, and we are calling them to do that now. If they don’t, they will lose those lands. The minister will not look at your face, whether you are his friend or enemy; he will only look at the genuineness of your claims.”

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