ABUJA — MINISTER of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Senator Bala Mohammed, yesterday, told Senators that the Park and Pay policy recently introduced in the nation’s capital where owners of vehicles park and pay was not backed by law.
The FCT recently made it mandatory for commuters who use the roads especially in places like in Garki, Wuse, Maitama, Asokoro to pay N50 for 30 minutes, N100 for one hour and more depending on the hours one must have parked his or her vehicle.
After a serious session, yesterday, with the Senator Smart Adeyemi, PDP, Kogi West-led Senate Committee on the FCT to defend the 2013 budget, the FCT Minister, however, dared the lawmakers, boasting that no law can stop him from demolishing 31 estates and Mpape in the FCT.
When asked if there was any law backing the introduction of park and pay policy in the FCT, the minister said: “The parking regime, we inherited it and we saw that it is noble and we implemented it. We are treating it administratively.
“There is no institutional structure at all. It is just a responsibility of the road department to make sure that all these practices where the city is converted into a car park. We have designated car parks here and there, people park anyhow such that the corridors are impeded by people who do not want to follow our transport resolutions and that is why it was done by my predecessor and I saw that it is a good thing.
“Even the Okada, we don’t have a law but we are treating it administratively because security is everybody’s business. If we allow all these things to happen, certainly we will end up in trouble and we just have to take pre-emptive measures. I have a law on demolishing.
The law I said I don’t have is the one the chairman asked on the issue of parking. But for demolition, I have the law and I don’t even have to interfere with Development Control Law under the Land Use Act.”
The FCT Minister noted that N50,000,000,000 budget ceiling for the FCT by the Budget Office of the Federation as 2013 National Priority budget will not be enough to provide the needed infrastructure for the city. He said 2012 budget based on analysis, stands at 99 per cent, adding that total payment made up till date stands at N31.7 billion while the balance of N496 million is under process.
In the budget breakdown, the FCT will next year build a cultural centre and Millennium Tower for N2 billion, just as besides the N1 billion earmarked for construction of Vice President Namadi Sambo’s residence in Aso Drive, it will now be completed for N2 billion.
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