The Executive Director, Housing Development Advocacy Network, Festus Adebayo, has called on the Federal Capital Territory administration to provide details of existing approved layouts in order to prevent land racketeering in the capital city.
He noted that land racketeering was on the rise in the FCT and that the government needed to be aware of this to avoid losing investments.
Adebayo, who made the call during an interview with some journalists, further called on the FCT Minister to declare a state of emergency on land racketeering. “Firstly, there is no detailed information on existing approved layouts, resulting in fake layouts overlapping it. This information, if it is made public, would enable investors to know the right information that would save them from falling victim to land racketeers.”He added that if there was inadequate information about the existing layout, the public would no longer fall victim to sharp practices resulting in demolition all the time in some areas.
Adebayo explained that even with the suspension of the issuance of building plan approvals to area council plots, people were still erecting substandard buildings and the government was grossly losing revenue.
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