FCTA reveals how payment for C of O would be used

The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, has said that the payment for the Certificate of Occupancy, C of O from land allottees in Maitama II would be used for the development of infrastructure in the district.

This was disclosed by the Director of Land, Mr Chijioke Nwankwoeze, while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the FCT Executive Council meeting on Monday.

He stated that the funds are required to provide the needed infrastructure in the district.

“There is no other place you get this money except from the monies that would be paid by the allottees for that purpose,” he said.

the FCT Minister, Mr Nyesom Wike, had given owners of the 762 revoked plots of land in Maitama a two-week grace to pay for their C of O.

The owners of the plots, located in Maitama II, Cadastral Zone A10 area of the territory are expected to pay for their C of O or risk final revocation.

Clearing the air, Nwankwoeze told journalists that some of the allottees were given the allocation as far back as 2017, with an obligation to pay ground rent and C of O.

He said that the 762 allottees and the 614 others with outstanding payment of C of O have till January 3, 2025, to pay, or have their Right of Ownership, R of O titles withdrawn.

“Lands are given to people and the people complain that there is no infrastructure, but they don’t want to fulfil their own obligations to the offer.

“So, if you are given land, and you don’t comply with the terms and conditions of the offer of the Right of Ownership, R of O, the Administration would have no choice but to withdraw those offers and give it to people who are ready to comply.

“That was what the administration did”, he said.