Those converting buildings to clubs, hotels, others in trouble – FCT Minister

hehehe....The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has warned landlords in the Federal Capital Territory to strictly ensure that their buildings were used only for the purposes they were designed in the Abuja Master Plan. The Minister gave this charge, Friday, when the Nyanya (Phase I) Landlords’ Association, Abuja visited him in his office at Area 11, Garki I District, Abuja.


He said it had become necessary to forestall situations where some of the landlords were converting residential properties into nightclubs, brothels and worship centers, against the purposes for which they were designed and approved by the FCT Development Control Department.

Malam Bello stated that as community leaders, the landlords had a duty to insist that anybody staying in any of their properties subscribe to basic minimum standards of behaviour agreed between them and the tenants.
His words: “A lot of activities take place in these buildings that are illegal. They are all done in properties owned by people. For every property, there is purpose for it. If as a landlord, you allow somebody to rent your house and before you know it, he converts it into a nightclub and the wrong people come there, it affects the neighbours”.
The Minister who explained that districts and communities in the FCT were specifically designed to have areas for schools, commercial activities, residential and hospitals, regretted that some landlords allowed for mixed use, which he reiterated often, has led to breakdown of law and order in the community.
“If your member rented a house out and before you know it, the tenant has converted it into a church or a mosque or a nightclub and then instead of normal service time that we know, somebody will put up something at 2.00am. This is wrong. You have to police these things and give us report so that we can enforce”, he stressed.