By Joyce Remi-Babayeju
The FCT Minister, Barr. Nyesom Wike has approved a Ministerial committee on post development audit of buildings to checkmate incidences of collapsed buildings in the territory to ensure a sustainable city.
The Coordinator of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council, AMMC, Chief Felix Amechi Obuah who inaugurated the audit, said that it will provide accurate records of all development permit issued to reduce cases of unapproved, illegal conversation of land use and land grabbing in Abuja.
According to the AMMC Coordinator, the audit records will enhance provision of data on the consumption of utilities and services such as water, electricity, and connectivity to the sewer line, which will also detect illegal connections to these facilities denying government revenue.
The provision of data and research on city planning and development and management will enhance accurate taxation and revenue
Generations in the buildings and properties unit inculcated into the FCT internal Revenue Tax Net.
According to the AMMC Coordinator, the FCT Minister set up the Committee to take a cursory look at the trend of the city’s development and chart a more robust future course for the city’s development, which is in line with the renewed hope agenda of President Bola Tinubu.
Obuah said that the audit exercise will enhance security and job creation through the of employment of consultants and experts to provide the necessary expertise and service.
“On our part, the FCT Minister is committed to seeing that the necessary logistics needed
for the successful completion of this exercise are provided.”
“Together, we shall carry out this exercise and together we shall chart a new course for the planning and development of our dear city that is evidence-based and in the end bequeath a sustainable city legacy to future generations.”
The AMMC boss further explained that the committee headed by Director of Development Department, Tpl Mukhar Galadima is made up of representatives of all the relevant FCT departments such as AEPB, Development Control, Urban and Regional Planning, Fire Services.
“The people that have been so appointed are professionals in their different fields, so we don’t have any doubt about their performance”, he disclosed.
“At least, we expect that on or before six months, the committee would have come up with a comprehensive report and recommendations to the Hon. Minister.”
“It is not a committee of one month or two months, as anything that is worth doing, is worth doing very well, that is why we have given them this amount of time, so as to enable them to do a very useful job”, Obuah stressed.
Galadima gave the assurance that the committee will not disappoint the AMMC Coordinator, FCT Minister and the Federal Capital Territory Administration.
