Nigeria Daily News: 124,000 houses demolished in Abuja since 2010, says Minister

124,000 houses demolished in Abuja since 2010, says Minister
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Staff  on 25/09/2012 06:00:00


The FCT Minister, Sen. Bala Mohammed, on Monday said that more than 124,000
houses had been demolished in Abuja since he assumed office in 2010.
Bala disclosed this at the Town Hall Meeting to round-off the three days Good
Governance Projects Tour of Abuja.
He said the administrations before him had demolished 30,000 houses.
“We are doing this to get the Abuja Masterplan correctly, we are demolishing
and we will continue to demolish.’’
He said that compensation and resettlement had become a big problem and that
plans were on to relocate 19 villages very soon.
“We have to complete the building in Wasa and other places before we can
resettle them.
“The structures ought to have been completed three years before I assumed
office but I am assuring you that we shall complete them very soon.
“The demolition of the illegal structures has become imperative in order to
keep the sanity of the city and restore the original masterplan of the
nation’s capital.
“We must not allow the FCT to degenerate into something else. We must protect
the sanity of the city. NAN
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