FCTA Demolishes Structures In River Park Estate

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has taken a hardline stance, demolishing a recently erected operation astatine the upscale River Park Estate successful a forceful determination to enforce a ministerial directive halting each development.

The operation, led by the manager of the Department of Development Control, Mukhtar Galadima, marked the latest escalation successful a protracted conflict against what the medication describes arsenic amerciable operation successful defiance of an bid from the FCT minister, Nyesom Wike.

This sojourn is the latest successful a bid of enforcement actions; the FCTA had antecedently stopped the improvement of implicit 30 substructures astatine the property successful September for violating readying regulations.
Galadima expressed vexation that contempt these efforts, the developer had resumed work.

“We are present to guarantee full compliance with the ministerial directive that nary improvement should beryllium allowed successful the River Park Estate.

“We got a study that determination is an ongoing development. That is wherefore we rushed to guarantee that the improvement is stopped and the operation being enactment up is removed,” helium explained.

The struggle stems from the findings of an ad-hoc committee inaugurated by Minister Wike connected August 8, 2025, to resoluteness controversies surrounding the estate.

The committee confirmed the revocation of undeveloped plots owed to the expiration and breach of the Development Lease Agreement.

While it recommended that residents with valid “customary” titles who built according to regulations beryllium allowed to stay, it explicitly directed that each vacant plots beryllium reverted to the FCTA, halting immoderate caller construction.

Galadima confirmed the developer is afloat alert of this order. “He is precise overmuch alert due to the fact that determination was a ample publicity that determination was a ministerial committee proposal and support that, for now, nary further improvement should instrumentality place,” helium said.

When questioned connected the outgo and inefficiency of repeated enforcement visits, the manager revealed a strategical shift: The section is present pursuing ineligible channels to unafraid a imperishable solution.

“Yeah, we are liaising with our Legal Secretariat to guarantee that this enactment is taken legally truthful that we don’t person to travel backmost again.

“Maybe determination is simply a cognition that helium tin bash arsenic helium pleases, but cipher is supra the government. We person done the kinetic aspect; present we are taking it up legally to guarantee that we don’t return,” helium said.

Galadima said that the adjacent steps would beryllium determined aft consultations with the Legal Secretariat, signalling that the administration’s patience has worn bladed and a courtroom conflict whitethorn beryllium imminent.

“At this infinitesimal I can’t accidental thing because, arsenic I said earlier, I americium going to consult the Legal Secretariat connected the adjacent enactment of action,” helium said.