Senate promises FCT Minister legislative support

Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory has promised a legislative support for the FCT Minister, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike and the entire administration in order to achieve its mandate.

The upper legislative chamber made the promise on Tuesday at an interactive session with officials from FCT at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja.

Speaking at the Committee session, Chairman of the Committee, Senator Ibrahim Mohammed Bomai lauded the Minister and his officials for their commitment to sanitizing the Federal Capital Territory and riding it of criminal elements.

Bomai said, legislative support would further strengthen activities of FCT, hence, the 10th Senate was willing to offer support to ensure that what they have started would be sustained.

He said: “I have no doubt of what the minister will achieve at the end because of his wealth of experience as governor and administrator which he will deploy to FCT”.

Reacting to question from news men over the threat for revocation of lands by the FCT minister, “it is not a threat, he is not saying he will revoke the legal occupant, he promised to revoke those that are not following the due process”.

According to the Chairman, if the minister is going about revoking any land that will attract litigation which it is not good for him as well as distract his work, I think he knows it better.

Sen. Bomai emphasised that they will make sure that people living in FCT will be given adequate facility that will make life comfortable for them and that will be part of their oversight function that the Senate is mandated to do.