Federal Capital Territory Administration stops Tenement Rates collection

    Federal Capital Territory Administration​, FCTA,​ has approved the temporary suspension of Tenement Rates collection Abuja.

   The directive to this effect was contained in a circular signed by the FCT Permanent Secretary, Babatope Ajakaiye.
   According to the circular, the suspension was necessitated by the need to sanitize and streamline the Tenement Rates collection process, as well as ensure compliance with relevant provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
   Ajakaiye drew attention to the constitutional responsibility of the National Assembly to prescribe rates to be paid on tenements in the FCT and disclosed that the FCTA was liaising with the legislative body for the enactment of the requisite Act.