National Assembly told to enact laws to halt arbitrary revocation of lands in Abuja

The National Assembly has been called upon to enact authorities that would forestall the arbitrary revocation of onshore allocations successful Abuja.

Festus Uwakhemen, a realtor and subordinate of the Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN), made the entreaty successful a connection issued connected Wednesday successful Abuja.

He said the projected authorities would supply spot owners successful the nation’s superior with greater assurance that their onshore titles cannot beryllium indiscriminately revoked by successive administrations.

According to Uwakhemen, the telephone for a caller instrumentality has go indispensable owed to predominant instances wherever Federal Capital Territory (FCT) ministers revoke onshore allocations approved by their predecessors—a concern helium said has adversely affected individuals and firm organizations.

“The National Assembly has to walk a instrumentality that erstwhile a curate has approved immoderate land, successful rule oregon either done a Certificate of Occupancy (C of O), nary different curate has the powerfulness to revoke the onshore but if the onshore passes done the National Assembly.

“With that, we are going to person sanity. But if that is not passed, each curate has the powerfulness to revoke. They tin travel to your location and accidental your location is connected the waterways. That is wherefore radical successful the FCT support having issues of revocation. You’ll...