An investor, Mr Chido Okolo, has sought the intervention of the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Barr Nyesom Wike, following the alleged disappearance of his plot of land in the survey plan of the Federal Capital Development Authority.
Okolo, a diaspora returnee, blamed land grabbers aided by FCDA staff members as the land in question had been in dispute for about 13 years. He prayed the minister to set up a panel of inquiry to address land racketeering in the territory.
Okolo said his plot B06 1523c, Mabushi, initially allocated for a garden ‘has now turned from green to residential plots’, adding that the land ‘has even disappeared completely from the survey plan’.
He claimed powers within the FCT ‘connived with grabbers to dispossess him of his property’.
He said, “I have been threatened by the actions of these characters. The police, ICPC, Public Complaints Commission, and Human Rights Radio 101.5fm have all tried to get my land off the powerful grip of these actors. “The former CG of Immigration, Rose Uzoma, was the original allottee of B06 1523B, and also possesses B06 1523A which she bought from Lamidi Express before she transferred her ownership to Mr Patrick Idiaghe who then converted his property along with theirs, which is now B06 1523 B and B06 1523A.”
Okolo accused some officers in the ICT Department, Development Control, one director recently posted from Parks and Recreation to Urban Affairs, a former surveyor in Parks and Recreation but now works at Survey and Planning, FCDA, as those behind his ordeal.
“I am presently in court with one Mr Patrick Idiaghe and the former controller general of Immigration over the conversion of my garden B06 1523c, Mabushi, to residential plots using these departments and persons,” he said.
He said in another survey plan purportedly authenticated by the former minister, “Seaflow International Investment Limited which I represent and which owns B06 1523c, Mabushi, is completely missing.”
“The director of Parks, Mr Ukpana, showed me the list which runs with a double AA,B,D,E without C. I have tackled this matter of forging documents to convert my garden B061523c Mabushi to residential, with the immediate past director of Urban and Regional Planning, and it was restored.
“But as she retired, these individuals swung into action again, culminating in this current issue of B06 1523c, Mabushi, not among the owners of the totality of the whole B06 1523 strip, rather a manufactured list of double AA, B, D, E without C is now what is a minister’s list.”
He appealed to Wike to use his good offices to investigate the matter.
“Wike is the right man to purge FCT of its land-grabbing mess. This matter has dragged on for 13 years, but the image of Wike tells me that he is above board. Let him set a judicial panel of inquiry to aggregate and investigate land-grabbing petitions in Abuja,” he stated.
