Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has directed that the illegal construction work on a piece of land allocated to the Embassy of the Republic of Venezuela in Abuja be stopped immediately.
The minister gave the directive when a three-man delegation of the Venezuelan government visited the Minister, on Friday.
The delegation had complained that the piece of land allocated to the Embassy of the Republic of Venezuela in Abuja in 1991, was illegally sold out to a private company by the former Head of Chancery at the Embassy. Malam Bello said, “Information in the files indicates that some officials of your Embassy brought documents in August, 2018, for registration and transfer of title. But the FCT Administration cannot transfer land title from a country to a private company”, the minister said.
Speaking earlier, leader of the delegation, Mr. Konrath Moreno, Director-General of Legal Consultancy in the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said the purported sale of the land was not authorised by his government.
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