Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has approved 5,481 Certificates of Occupancy (Cs of O) between August 2023 and December 2024.
This was contained in a statement released on Tuesday by the minister’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Mr Lere Olayinka in Abuja
Olayinka stated that the figure was 2,919 less than the 8,400 C of O signed by the FCT Administration in 13 years from 2010 to 2023.
“From May 2010 to May 2015, a total of 5,655 C of O were produced and signed, while 1,174 were signed between 2015 and May 2019.
“Also, a total of 1,571 C of O were signed between May 2019 and May 2023.
“Meanwhile, from May 2023 when President Tinubu assumed office to Dec. 31, 2024, a total of 5,481 C of O were signed by the FCT Minister,” he said.
The spokesman to the minister added that once a payment was made, a land allottee would get his or her C of O within two weeks.
He noted that before Wike assumes office, land allottees were not encouraged to pay for their C of O because it took several years to process.
“This has changed in line with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
“Also, even sourcing information on when a C of O is collected and details of the collector that used to take months, can now be done within 72 hours,” he said.
Land allottees whose C of O were ready for collection would begin to be notified through an SMS for the collection of their titled documents by next week, Olayinka added.
