The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has commenced moves to strengthen institutional frameworks for its land administration.

Minister of the FCT, Senator Bala Mohammed, disclosed this, in Abuja, while receiving the report of the Implementation Committee on the recommendations of the Committee on Re-positioning of Land Administration in the federal capital. He noted that the institutional frameworks are needed in the bid by the FCT Administration to ensure that all fraudulent activities are eliminated from the entire land administration of the capital city.

The Minister said that the era when land allocation was done without due regard to stipulated guidelines as provided for by the government is gone. He reiterated that such lawlessness and unwholesome practices which paved way for infiltration, alteration, forgery and monumental fraud in land administration in the territory is now gone for good.

“I have watched with keen interest the turbulent dust that the issue of land allocation has generated over the past years in the Federal Capital Territory with its attendant negative picture, which has international implications, because Abuja is the window through which the world sees Nigeria,” he said.

He promised to implement all recommendations to the letter in order to ensure sustainable development and qualitative service in line with SERVICOM Charter of the federal government, thereby making Abuja an all inclusive city.

He said that the committee was not set up to witch-hunt anybody, but to look at how best the government can effectively improve its services.

Speaking earlier, the Chairman of the Ministerial Committee, Mr. Dele Odesanmi, called for the establishment of Special Courts that would considerably reduce the quantum of land disputes in the Federal Capital Territory. He also called for the establishment and adoption of e-portal which would make access to information easier and faster by the public.

“A digital nervous system would have been put in place to ensure a faster, easier flow of communications within the administration while ensuring that information does not get into wrong hands,” he declared.