The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has revealed plans to establish zonal offices to curb the indiscriminate selling of lands by local chiefs in the territory.
The Mandate Secretary of Area Council Services, Alhaji Ibrahim Dantsoho, made the disclosure in an interview on Sunday.
He said that the FCTA had stopped all the 17 graded chiefs in the territory and others from the sale of any portion of land within the FCT, noting that it was only the FCT minister who had the right to allocate or revoke any land.
Dantsoho said, “The FCTA is perfecting plans to establish zonal offices to curtail racketeering and indiscriminate sales and purchase of land in the FCT.
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”FCTA is on top of the situation as some of the chiefs have been relieved of their titles and others suspended because of the act.
“So, I am telling you that the administration is not taking this lightly. We don’t encourage this and there is a severe punishment for anyone found wanting.
”Anyone indicted must face the law and at the end he will stand to lose whatever he is proud of as a village chief in the community.”
On the security situation in the territory, the mandate secretary said, “You can go to bed and sleep. (NAN)
