FCTA Speaks On Plan To Demolish Senate President, Speaker’s Official Residence

FCTA Speaks On Plan To Demolish Senate President, Speaker’s Official Residence

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Tuesday said there is no plan to demolish the official residents of the President of Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

The Executive Secretary of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), Eng. Ahmed Hadi, made this known when he appear before the House of Representatives adhoc Committee investigating the real estate sector in the FCT, in Abuja.

Hadi maintained that the official residents of the President of Senate and the Speaker didn’t in anyway contravene Abuja Master plan.

While adding that due diligence had been done in every bit of process for the construction of the structures.

According to him, “We want to use this forum to reach out to the leadership of the National Assembly that there was no any intention to rise the issue or embarrass the offices of the President of Senate nor the Speaker or the Deputy Senate President.”

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“The issue is not a conclusive position and we have not reached a climax of the forum. We really take exception to that news making round that.”

“That is not the position of the FCTA and certainly not the position of this investigative workshop. I’m not mincing word to say that everything that we agree here we will crosscheck with our records have been done.”

Hadi further stated that the development within the three arms zone was intended to house the legislature, executive and judiciary.