The threat of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to deal with land speculators in the capital territory is beginning to yield instant results, as no fewer than two directors and five others in the Land Department of the Federal Capital Territory Development Authority (FCDA) and the Department of Development Control (DDC) have been indicted by the police on allegations of land speculation and racketeering.
According to the police, the indicted persons will soon be charged in court.
Recall that upon assumption of office, Wike vowed to deal with land speculators, warning that the days of land racketeering are over in the FCT.
The police are specifically pressing charges of criminal conspiracy, forgery, obtaining by pretense, and impersonation, The Leadership reports.
This development is a fallout of an investigation by the police over the ownership tussle between an engineering firm, Cona Engineering and Technical Services Nigeria Limited, and one Yusuf Daniel Ogwu over a piece of land located at plot 1308 Cadastral Zone A09 Guzape District, Abuja.
The company had mobilized to the site for construction activities before Yusuf Daniel Ogwu surfaced, with the said R of O claiming to be the original owner of the land.
However, available title documents showed that by the Certificate of Occupancy granted to Jamila Saleh Hassan on June 6, 2007 (file No. 20400), she became the beneficial owner of plot 1308 Cadastral Zone A09 Guzape District, Abuja.
Jamila Saleh Hassan, through an irrevocable and registered power of attorney, donated the above plot to Sunday Benjamin Egele sometime in June 2014.
However, Sunday Benjamin Egele, through a power of attorney, donated the same property to Cona Engineering and Technical Services Limited in December 2018.
