A total of 762 Nigerians, including House of Representatives Speaker Abbas Tajudeen, and organisations have lost their plots of land in the high-brow Maitama 1 District and other parts of the Federal Capital Territory(FCT).
FCT Minister Nyesom Wike revoked their Certificates of Occupancy(Cs-of-O) and threatened to withdraw the Rights of Occupancy (Rs-of-O) of 614 other individuals and companies if they fail to pay outstanding bills on their plots within two weeks.
The decisions by the minister were contained in two separate public notices published yesterday by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA).
The revocation, according to one of the notices published, was informed by the unwillingness of the affected persons, who are mostly serving and former public office holders, to pay the Cs-of-O) of the affected plots of land.
The second notice hinged on the threat to cancel the Rs-of-O due to the allottees’ failure to pay outstanding bills on their plots.
One of the revoked Cs-of-O is that of the land belonging to the Muhammadu Buhari Trust Foundation.
However, Shehu Garba, media aide to former President Muhammadu Buhari, clarified that the land belonged to the foundation and not his principal.’
Other prominent persons listed in the revocation notice are Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF) George Akume and his wife, Regina; former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Walter Onnoghen, Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State; former Governors Rochas Okorocha (Imo), Ben Ayade (Cross River), Shaaba Lafiagi (Kwara), Ahmad Sani (Zamfara) and Kabiru Gaya (Kano).
Also on the list are Senate Chief Whip Tahir Monguno; Senators Enyinnaya Abaribe, Abdul Ningi, Dino Melaye, Smart Adeyemi, Sunday Karimi, Abdulfatai Buhari, Barnabas Gemade, Shehu Sani, Adeyemi Adaramodu, Abba Moro, Danjuma La’ah and Abdulmumin Jibrin, Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, Obinna Chidoka, Nicholas Mutu, Dan Reneiju, Ezenwa Oyewuchi, Chinyere Igwe, David Umaru, Oluwole Oke and Oker Jev.
The list also contains the names of former House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Chibudom Nwuche; former Senate Leader Teslim Folarin, Nnenna Ukeje, Dapo Lam-Adesina, Leo Ogor, Francis Alimkhena and Lynda Ikpeazu.
Those threatened with revocation orders in the second notice include two former Senate Presidents– Iyorchia Ayu and Ameh Ebute–; Senators Andy Uba, Biodun Olujimi, Agom Jarigbe, Kingsley Chinda, and Ben Obi; former Ebonyi State Governor Sam Egwu; erstwhile Aviation Minister Stella Oduah; and Deputy Governor of Edo State Dennis Idahosa.
Also on the list are the Labour Party(LP) presidential candidate in last year’s general election Peter Obi, former Cross River State Governor Liyel Imoke; former National Planning Minister Udo Udoma, late SGF Ufot Ekaette; Publisher of Leadership, the late Sam Nda-Isaiah and Senator Victor Oyofo.
A former Supreme Court Justice and Chairman of the 2005 National Conference, the late Niki Tobi; a former Attorney-General of the Federation, Kanu Agabi; Chidinma, wife of a former Aviation Minister, Osita Chidoka; and Paul Nwabiukwu, media aide to the Director-General of World Trade Congress (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala are among others listed.
The corporate entities with their allocation revoked are BUA Group, whose plot is at 335 in Katampe; Julius Berger Nigeria with a plot at 2217 also in Katampe and Honeywell Construction with a plot at 653 in the Idu Industrial Area of the FCT.
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