The Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Mr Ahmed Dangiwa, on Friday, urged owners of Federal Government-owned lands and houses in Lagos State to remit their ground rent to the government’s coffer.
Dangiwa said this during a stakeholder-citizen engagement on land administration and a physical assessment of Banana Island, Osborne Phase One and Two, Park View/Foreshore Estates, and shorelines.
He said that the ministry planned to optimise its revenue collections by ensuring that all the occupiers of Federal Government assets pay their ground rent to enable it to improve on the facilities.
According to him, while the Federal Government is committed to renovating, safeguarding, and optimising the value of its assets nationwide, it will also enforce strict compliance with its land and estates administration laws.
Dangiwa said that the Ministry of Housing, under the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu, had resolved to restore order in federal land and asset management.
“The Ministry is resolved to ensure strict adherence to the provisions of the law regarding the control and administration of its assets to maintain order,” he said.
The minister directed the estate associations to stay within their limits, noting that they have the right to collect facility management fees based on agreement with the occupants of the estates.
He warned that whatever the occupants agreed to pay should be used to maintain the estates in terms of electricity, roads, and all other facilities they use in the estate.
“This is known to be the facility management fees, which all estates usually charge in order to maintain the estate, but they should not go beyond that to collecting ground rent from the occupants.
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