The Concerned Abuja Residents Forum has written to the Federal Government over distortion to the original masterplan of the city.
The group in a letter to the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Muhammad Bello, said the masterplan has been violated.
“What the city can boast of currently as green areas is indeed a mockery of what the International Planning Associates (IPA), designers of the capital city, envisaged in the Masterplan and Report they submitted to the Federal Government of Nigeria in 1979,” the group said.
A letter by the group’s convener Chuks Akamadu, said the brazen conversion of green areas by relevant authorities to commercial and residential purposes in collusion with civil servants is ridiculing the FCT lofty masterplan.
“Area council’s unrestrained encroachment and reckless subdivision of land and partitioning of green areas in flagrant breach of the masterplan have combined to ridicule the very “Neighbourhood Concept” of the masterplan, thereby questioning the wisdom in making Abuja the nation’s capital city,” the group said.
It called on the minister to immediately declare, in line with the Change Agenda of the current administration, a state of emergency on the lingering abuse of the Abuja masterplan.
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