Nasir Imam
5 November 2009
Abuja — The FCT Administration (FCTA) will henceforth sanction any plot owner with overgrown weeds in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
The FCT Minister, Senator Muhammad Adamu Aliero made this threat on Thursday in Abuja during an unscheduled inspection of some strategic locations in some districts of the Federal Capital City, Abuja aimed at personally assessing the performance of operational departments of the FCT Administration.
The Minister reiterated that plot owners should take possession of their property and keep them clean or else the FCT Administration will clean them but for a cost.
"The government cannot sit down and fold its arms to see overgrown grasses taking over strategic locations in the Federal Capital City while the men of the underworld gladly take advantage," he restated.
Senator Aliero warned that all affected property owners are hereby advised to cut such grasses and keep them clean or face sanction by the FCT Administration.
He disclosed that the FCT Department of Land Administration has already been directed to issue warning letters to the affected property owners because Abuja environment must be maintained to international at all times as envisaged by its founding fathers.
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