FCT: We will bring your property down – Wike warns land grabbers

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday warned land grabbers forging documents to desist from such acts.

This is as Wike warned the Acting Director of Development Control to pull down all properties being developed by land grabbers with forged documents.

He spoke during the day 10 flag-off ceremony of the construction of service carriageways of the Southern Parkway, from Arterial Road S20 (Oladipo Diya way) to Ring Road II.

Wike charged the Acting Director of Development Control to take his work seriously or risk sanctions.

He said: “Let me warn and I have asked for the Acting Director of Development Control. The Head of Service, I have noticed that most of your directors do not come around and now that we are looking for the Acting Director of Development Control, he’s not here. Take the message to him, luckily, he is acting and not the Director yet; I have the capacity not to make him the Director and if he likes, he should call on workers to embark on strike.

“It’s on me to approve the Directorship, tell him if he loves his job, he must be present in whichever activities we are doing.

“Send this message to him that all these land grabbers who have started to develop lands that are not given to them, he should go and bring all down. Heaven will not fall, rather heaven will be at peace when things are done properly.

“We have found out that each time we want to carry out construction, people who have not been genuinely allocated lands, you see them forging documents, it will not work, so tell the Acting Director of Development Control to liaise with the director of land to make sure that those who were not given land and have started to building, it’s in vein, we will bring it down. So take this message to him, let him take his work very seriously.”