{"id":3604,"date":"2023-10-23T07:24:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T07:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=3604"},"modified":"2023-10-23T07:24:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T07:24:38","slug":"fct-residents-given-until-october-31-to-revert-land-use-for-residential-purposes-or-face-property-revocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/10\/23\/fct-residents-given-until-october-31-to-revert-land-use-for-residential-purposes-or-face-property-revocation\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Residents Given Until October 31 to Revert Land Use for Residential Purposes or Face Property Revocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Uchendu Alexis<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has issued an ultimatum to beneficiaries of monetized federal government properties in Abuja, demanding that they return to their original land use by the end of October. Failure to comply could result in property revocation starting on November 1.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mukhtar Galadima, the Director of the Department of Development Control in the Administration, announced this directive during a news conference in Abuja. He emphasized that the monetization program, initiated by the Federal Government in 2005 due to the high maintenance costs of these properties, comes with terms of purchase that beneficiaries must adhere to.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Galadima stated, &#8220;The minister has approved and directed that all owners of such properties should revert the properties to their original and designated land use, which is residential. Failing to comply with this directive from Nov. 1, the houses are considered as revoked and returned to FCTA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Development Control has identified over 111 cases of land use conversion for these sold houses, spread across all districts of the capital city.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the minister has instructed property owners, particularly those along major streets, who have converted their properties without approval, to either return to the original use or pay contravention charges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Non-compliance with these directives may lead to the administration taking appropriate action, including property revocation. These measures aim to preserve the integrity of the Abuja Master Plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uchendu Alexis &nbsp; The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has issued an ultimatum to beneficiaries of monetized federal government properties in Abuja, demanding that they return to their original land use by the end of October. Failure to comply could result in property revocation starting on November 1. &nbsp; Mukhtar Galadima, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3605,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions\/3605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}