FCTA orders demolition of buildings on Abuja green area

The Abuja Metropolitan Management Council of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has given its Development Control Department 48 hours to demolish more than 10 duplexes built on a green area.

The Coordinator, Felix Obuah, gave the order during a joint inspection of illegal construction of illegal structures across Abuja on Thursday, May 8, 2025.

Obuah explained that the duplexes were built on a green area in Wumba District, close to Apo in Abuja, with no authorisation.

He said the officials of development control had earlier asked the developer to stop work, including marking the structures.

He, however, said the developer ignored the order and even covered the stopped order written on the building and continued the construction project.

The coordinator stated that the developer had given the council no option but to demolish all the illegal buildings.

Obuah said: “When we invited the developer to provide legal documents for the activities he’s carrying out, we all discovered that there is no paper, no approval, no allocation.

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“I asked him to stop working, but you can see that the work is still going on.

“So, all these properties that you are seeing here are all going down.”

Obuah added that the FCT Administration would not tolerate any development that contravened the provision of the Abuja Master Plan.

The Director of Development Control, Mukhtar Galadima, further stated that the developer has no approval from any authority.

He said: “We didn’t give the developer any approval, and when you look around, you would see the evidence that we had marked these structures at different stages of development.

“So, the development control will come with its bulldozers and in less than 48 hours everything here will go down.”

The Star