{"id":65366,"date":"2025-05-06T10:22:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65366"},"modified":"2025-05-06T10:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:22:41","slug":"fcta-moves-to-reclaim-abuja-green-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/06\/fcta-moves-to-reclaim-abuja-green-zones\/","title":{"rendered":"FCTA Moves to Reclaim Abuja Green Zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory Administration has launched a sweeping crackdown on land grabbers and developers encroaching on designated green areas across Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Chief Felix Obuah, Coordinator of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council, officials stormed several sites on Monday, including Guzape and Utako District, where illegal constructions were already underway.<\/p>\n<p>One developer was caught converting green belts and waterways into estate plots, selling them to unsuspecting buyers.<\/p>\n<p>Obuah, citing findings from an investigative report, said the developer blatantly violated the terms of his building approval.<\/p>\n<p>Some illegal structures were pulled down on the spot, while others were given a two week grace period for voluntary removal.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, will not tolerate further sabotage of Abuja\u2019s master plan, adding that culpable civil servants will also face disciplinary action.<\/p>\n<p>Director of Development Control, Mukhtar Galadima, confirmed the developer ignored multiple stop work orders, prompting intensified surveillance by enforcement teams.<\/p>\n<p>Kadiri Ogbaidi, owner of Citiscape Villa, Guzape, admitted responsibility for the violations, blaming his estate subscribers but promising to demolish the illegal structures at his own cost within the grace period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The Federal Capital Territory Administration has launched a sweeping crackdown on land grabbers and developers encroaching on designated green areas across Abuja. Led by Chief Felix Obuah, Coordinator of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council, officials stormed several sites on Monday, including Guzape and Utako District, where illegal constructions were already underway. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65366","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65368,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65366\/revisions\/65368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}