FCTA charges owners of empty houses to illuminate them
The FCT Executive Committee (EXCO) has expressed concern over numerous uncompleted and abandoned buildings dotting the Federal Capital City, Abuja.
The EXCO expressed this concern during its meeting at the banquet hall of the FCT minister’s residence, Gwarinpa I District (Life-Camp), Abuja.
FCT Minister Bala Mohammed who presided over the meeting, reiterated that such structures pose security threat to the wellbeing of the city.
“The EXCO noted the huge security implications of these buildings on the lives of the residents of the Federal Capital Territory and directed the FCT Department of Development Control on how to minimize it,” the Chief Press Secretary to the FCT Minister, Muhammad Hazat Sule, quoted the minister as saying.
The EXCO also expressed concern over the appearance of dilapidated buildings and warned that the trend must be reversed immediately.
The minister said: “The EXCO thus directed the FCT Development Control Department to as a matter of urgency enumerate all uncompleted buildings as well as undeveloped plots in serviced areas.”
The EXCO advised property owners in the territory, especially those completed but unoccupied to make effort to illuminate them and provide security lighting and personal guards.
He said “Owners of completed but unoccupied buildings should be made to mandatorily provide security lighting at the view, rear and all sides of such properties all nights as well as station security personnel”.
The EXCO also directed that empty homes be kept clean of weeds, stagnant water, litter and properly landscaped with well-manicured plants.
On transportation, the EXCO noted the ongoing installation of traffic lights in 74 junctions across the Federal Capital City and some satellite towns.
Mohammed said that this is in fulfillment of the FCT Administration’s plan to signalise all intersections in the Federal Capital City as well as some selected satellite towns.
The minister disclosed that the project is in collaboration with the Chinese government through the National Planning Commission and that the FCT administration has paid all its counterpart funds.