The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has taken steps to recover N29 billion Naira owed it as ground rent by land allottees in the Capital Territory.
The administration said the fund recovery will be enforced through the instrumentality of the Court
The General Counsel (GC) and Secretary of the Legal Services Secretariat of the FCTA, Mohammed Babangida Umar who disclosed after the FCTA weekly Executive Committee meeting held on Monday said the Land Use Act allows the administration to recover ground rents through the Magistrate Court.
In a statement signed by Anthony Ogunleye, the Chief Press Secretary to the FCT Minster, the General Counsel urged residents who are yet to pay their ground rents to do so or risk the prescribed penalties.
According to him “any recalcitrant allotee who refuses to pay their ground rents and other rents payable to the FCT Administration will be made to do so or will be prosecuted and may forfeit their titles on such land.”
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