Nyesom Wike gives Abuja landowners fresh ultimatum to settle bills or risk revocation

Nyesom Wike gives Abuja landowners fresh ultimatum to settle bills or risk revocation

The Pastor of the Government Capital Domain (FCT), Nyesom WIke, has allowed an additional fourteen day final proposal to proprietors of the 762 plots of land in Maitama to pay for their authentications of inhabitance (C-of-O) or hazard last renouncement.

The Government Capital Region Organization (FCTA) on Thursday, December 19, distributed a public notification, featuring the names of people and organizations whose land titles have been disavowed. The FCTA said the impacted title proprietors neglected to pay for their C-of-O for the disavowed 769 plots of land.

The disavowal came fourteen days after the FCTA distributed a rundown of supposed land title indebted individuals. Defaulters were at first given two weeks from November 26 to pay for their C-of-O.

In an explanation on Friday, Wike’s representative, Lere Olayinka, said the impacted landowners have begun making installments since the public notification was distributed on Thursday,, December 19.

Olayinka said after the January 3, 2025, cutoff time, defaulters would have their territory titles at last renounced

“It ought to be reviewed that on October 5, 2024, a rundown of 3,273 allottees/champions that were at this point to pay for their C-of-O was distributed,” the assertion peruses.

They were offered fourteen days to cover their bills or lose their Right of Inhabitance (R-of-O) titles. Out of the 3,273, a sum of 2,511 consented, leaving 762.

Recently, a notification of withdrawal of the R-of-O titles of the 762 defaulters was distributed. From that point forward, a large number of the impacted allottees have proposed to pay, and since the essential point of the public authority is to guarantee installment, a fourteen day effortlessness has been given.

Subsequently, the 762 allottees and the 614 others with extraordinary installment on C-of-O will have till January 3, 2025, to pay, or have their R-of-O titles removed, according to the arrangements of Area 28 of the Land Use Demonstration of 1978.

After January 3, 2025, there will be no further augmentation and withdrawal of the R-of-O titles of defaulters will be conclusive.”