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Audit
By Uche Bibilari
Abuja, Oct. 11, 2016 (NAN) The Department of Development Control, Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), says it will soon commence a pos-development audit particularly at mass housing sites.
Mr Muktar Galadima, the Acting Director, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja.
He said that the audit would enable the department to verify whether the contractors obtained the required approval before building.
“I want to use this opportunity to tell members of the public that the department will soon commence what we call post-development audit, particularly at mass housing sites.
“Some of them just go ahead and build what was not approved for them, even in the satellite towns.
“Most of them, we believe, built even without approval; so, we are going to visit them and and see if it is something we are going to regularise.
“If we cannot regularise it, we remove it, particularly where your document is doubtful; or we may penalise you heavily so as to correct the mistakes.”
On the issue of slums in some parts of the city centre, he said that the department, in conjunction with other related agencies, would embark on sanitisation of those areas.
He said that the exercise would help to reduce the problems being experienced in those areas.
Galadima noted that the slums in places like Jabi, Mabushi, Utako and Durumi, among others, were pockets of indigenous settlements that were expanding.
“These are pockets of indigenous settlements that are expanding; unfortunately other Nigerians come to settle among this people.
“As a result, they have become a nuisance not only to the FCT authority but the whole Abuja.
“There are several instances where people of questionable character go there and perpetuate some illegality and go into these places and hide. The good thing now is that the authority will soon embark on a sanitation exercise soon.’’
According to him, plans are under way to resettle the inhabitants of these slums in places like Sheregaluyi in Bwari Area Council and Wasa, adding that the settlements had yet to be completed. (NAN)
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Edited by David Onilede/Nkechi Okoronkwo
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