Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Barrister Nyesom Wike, says the administration will issue new Certificates of Occupancy (C of O) to River Park Estate residents who built houses on land directly allocated by the FCTA.
Speaking after an inspection on Saturday, Wike clarified that Paulo Homes “have no business with FCT. Let it be on record. They have no business with FCT. Only the other companies that have a disagreement.”
He explained that the Development Lease Agreement had expired and been breached, prompting the revocation of the plots.
“In order not to make a lot of Nigerians who may have either fraudulently obtained or built houses suffer, we decided that we will give them back C of O… This cry that they want to take their property is neither here nor there. That is not the intention of the FCT administration,” he said.
Wike warned developers against illegal construction, insisting, “Anybody who is doing anything here now is at his own risk. It will go down.”
He assured residents they would be invited for a meeting next week to discuss regularisation.
