The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has demolished hundreds of illegal residential structures and extensions within Gishiri village at katampe District of FCT in continuation of its resolve to reclaim encroached plots of land for the rightful owners to take possession. Officials of the Development Control Department of FCTA were accompanied by joint security personnel stormed the area with two bulldozers and pulled down the structures illegally erected inside people’s plot of land and right of way.Some of the affected people decried that they had just finished paying their rents barely a week ago while others said landlords were asking them to pay their rents before their structures were pulled down, The owners of the legally allocated plots of lands have started taking possession of their land by erecting perimeter fences around their respective plots as encouraged by the FCTA.

The district Monitor of katampe and Mabushi districts Samson Atureta said during the demolition exercise that the demolition exercise will be on going as extensions were actually erected on people’s legally allocated plots in the area. There are so many illegal development and the village extensions that was why they had to clear them. The developments that are village extensions would be removed while being careful not to tamper with the houses where indegenes are living in.

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