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How FCTA officials collected my N57m; issued me 3 fake CofOs, by Wike 

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By Abdulfatah
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Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has explained that he stopped signing Certificates of Occupancy, C of Os,  because he does not trust the ones being brought to him to sign by the FCT Authority, FCTA officials, saying he doesn’t want to sign a C of O that has been given to another person.
He disclosed this during a meeting with estate developers in Abuja on Tuesday.
According to him, he is determined to sanitise the FCTA and the process of issuing  C of Os in the FCT.
Wike recounted how officials of the FCTA, issued him fake C of O on his plot of land after paying N57 million when he was governor of Rivers State.
“When I was governor of Rivers State, we had three C of Os from FCT. It turned out that all were fake.

“The C of O was coming from FCTA as a government, not as an individual. The plots allocated or said to be allocated, we paid mol
“When I now sent the Liaison Officer, the people from FCTA took him to the land and later, we discovered that it was fake land. Look at the money we had paid.

“The people disappeared. We could not find them again. Over N57 million that we paid. Why? Because that was how it was being done in the FCT. I have said that it will not work again.”

He vowed that very tough decisions would be taken to resolve the crisis and restore sanity to the system.

The Senior Special Assistant to the Minister on Land, Urban and Regional Planning, who is also the Chairman of the Ministerial Task Force on Issuance of C of O for Mass Housing and the Recovery of Land Use Contravention fees, had told the meeting was called at the behest of the FCT Minister in order to resolve disagreement between the Task Force and the developers and residents’ association for the payment of N5 million Naira as fees for the collection of C of Os.

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