In its determination to adhere to the Abuja Master Plan, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has inaugurated the Committee on Urban and Regional Tribunal to arbitrate on matters related to the contravention of land between FCT and the developers.
The Minister of the FCT, Senator Bala Muhammed, who inaugurated the committee yesterday in Abuja, noted that the FCT tribunal was first established in 1990 but could not take off as a result of legal constraints.
He added that a committee was reconstituted in 2008 with a new operational framework approved and gazetted by the then Attorney General of the FCT.
Senator Mohammed said that after moving the seat of government from Lagos to Abuja in 1976, the master plan was created to serve as a framework for the development of the city. Despite the successes recorded within this period, he said, the attraction of Abuja as a city of opportunities had created a massive internal migration of Nigerians to the city, hence the need to strictly adhere to the master plan.
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