FCT Pastors, Imams risk six months Jail term over illegal structures
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has said that defiant clergy men operating under illegal structures in the federal Capital Territory (FCT), henceforth risks. Six months jail terms and 50 000.00 fine for failure to comply with the proper building regulations obtainable in original Abuja master plan.
Before now the nation’s capital city has experienced several demolition exercises from former administrations all the effort to right the wrongs.
Briefing the media on its 2017 planed activities, the Acting Coordinator of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), Hajia Sefia Tani Umar, said that her leadership in the year 2016, passed encountered.
lots of challenges with the AMMC’s mandate of keeping the city clean, to maintain and to some extent to ensure that offenders of this existing laws are brought to book.
According to the coordinator of AMMC, the department of Development control and DOAS, have been up and doing trying to bring to barest minimum the proliferation of illegal structures at unauthorized places around the Abuja city in the interest of making money.
She said that efforts are being made to end the defacing of Abuja by clergy men, who build mosques and churches at unapproved parts of Abuja, thereby littering the city with posters and bill.
“We have served some churches quit notice to remove illegal structures and posters from city centers and public places. We will make use of the act of AEPB for enforcement and any of them who fails risks six months jail term and option of N50,000 fine”
