Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has said that his administration has successfully dealt a blow on the endemic land racketeers around the corridors of power.
He said that the land racketeering group that used to operate in Area 11, near the Abuja Geographic Information Systems (AGIS) head office, had suddenly disappeared as a result of the new method his administration adopted.
The minister, who spoke to news men on his score card in the last one-and-half year of his tenure as FCT minister, said that in addressing the mistakes of the past, his administration has been very careful in allocating land, admitting that since coming on board, no land has been allocated.
The minister said that the institutional framework of the FCTA has been strengthened not only to ensure effective service delivery but also maintain institutional memory.
On why he has has not appointed secretaries for the secretariats, the minister said he deliberately allowed the bureaucracy to work so that the management staff would no longer rely on the mentality of having to wait for directives on everything from a minister.
“We decided to strengthen the bureaucracy by allowing the civil servants to work. When ministers come with their political appointees and are gone, there is no institutional memory. That is why we spent a lot of resources on training staff.”
Muhammad Musa Bello promised that his administration would not demolish buildings anyhow, but would rather prefer the global best practice of upgrading and integration where infrastructure would be put in place for the people.
It would be recalled that the Minister was sworn in as the 16th Minister November 11, 2015. [myad]
