By Philip Yatai
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, says the FCT Administration will deal squarely with land grabbers, no matter how highly- placed.
Wike gave the warning when officials of the Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN), FCT Chapter, visited him in Abuja on Thursday.
“Land grabbing is not new. Some of your people are part of it, some staff of FCT are part of it.
“As a government, we will do all we can to see that we deal squarely with anybody that is involved, no matter how highly- placed he or she might be.
“It is a terrible situation we found ourselves in. People grabbing land; people illegally acquiring land, just for the purpose of becoming rich overnight,” the minister said.
He pointed out that everyday ,people write the FCTA, demanding for land allocation to develop a certain number of houses in the city.
He, however, said that many people were doing that just to obtain a land title and at the end of…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
