The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, has issued a 48-hour ultimatum for the demolition of 10 duplexes sitting on designated green space in the Wumba District, near Apo, Abuja.
The directive came from the Coordinator of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council , Felix Obuah, during a site inspection on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Obuah, leading a joint task force, described the buildings as unauthorized and a clear violation of the Abuja Master Plan.
He disclosed that the developer of the project had been served stop-work orders and had the buildings marked as illegal, but he continued with construction.
“When we invited the developer to provide documentation for the construction, there was nothing—no allocation, no approval. He deliberately defied our instructions and erased markings on the structures,” Obuah said.
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He warned that the administration would no longer tolerate disregard for environmental planning regulations or attempts to repurpose areas meant for public green spaces. “All these properties that you are seeing here are all going down,” he declared.
Supporting the directive, Director of Development Control Mukhtar Galadima confirmed that his department never issued building permits for the development. “We marked the structures at multiple stages, and the developer still proceeded. Now, we will proceed with demolition using our bulldozers in under 48 hours.”
This crackdown is part of FCTA’s wider effort to reclaim illegally occupied land and restore the city’s planned urban layout. Authorities have also demolished similar structures in other districts in recent months, emphasizing zero tolerance for lawless development in the capital.
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