Residents of Prince and Princess of Estate are crying out to the Department of Lands, FCT Administration to compel the builders of the property, Prince & Princess Properties Limited, to supply the required paperwork required for issuance of Certificates of Occupancy(CofO). The residents mentioned they’d utilized for Cof O since 2015, attended a number of conferences and exchanged correspondences with FCT Administration, however the builders of the property had refused to supply the Lands Department of Administration with the required paperwork wanted to course of the title doc.
The motion of the builders has price the FCT Administration about N3.5 billion income that might have accrued to it the type of prices and charges for processing the title doc.
According to one of many Executive Members of the Prince & Princess Estate Residents Association, “We have completed every thing essential to course of our Cof Os with AGIS (Abuja geographic data system), which is a unit within the Lands Department.
We have met all circumstances and are able to pay the N3.5 million processing price per constructing, however the builders of the property – Prince & Princess Properties Limited – are intentionally withholding important data from the FCT Administration, thus denying the federal government of the wanted income.” He added: “The over 1,100 residence homeowners on this property are due to this fact asking the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, to compel the builders to supply the doc to AGIS in order that the method can transfer ahead and/or give an govt waiver for the issuance of the certificates of occupancy.
According to a letter dated October 25, 2025, written by the Lands Dept to the developer, the developer is to supply the next paperwork: Land use and web site improvement plan; Building plan;Engineering infrastructure design; A-built survey plan;3D Aerial picture of the property and List of beneficiaries (householders).
House homeowners within the property are notably exasperated that the builders have intentionally induced the delay in issuance of the title doc by refusing to supply these paperwork to AGIS due to their persona curiosity, thus denying authorities of the wanted income.
Another house owner within the property lamented, saying: “It is quite inconceivable that the developers would block the FCT from earning its legitimate revenue from our estate. This is against the agreement the developers had with the FCT Administration before the land for this estate was allocated to them.”
The FCT Administration had put up an commercial in The Sun newspaper, inviting all property builders within the metropolis to ‘’submit crucial paperwork…for graduation of preparation of certificates of occupancy to beneficiaries/off takers’’. Two weeks after the publication of the advert, Owelle Prince C.N. Ukachuwku, Chairman/CEO of Prince & Princess Properties Limited, was mentioned to have issued a letter to the residents, requesting for proof of funds; receipts of funds and allocation letter so as to begin “preparation to perfect documentation and ownership of plots and houses by individuals in the estate.”
It was gathered regardless of the residents’ compliance with this directive, the method has not moved ahead.
Since then, the property’s residents affiliation has written a number of letters to FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike; the builders and Hon. Michael Chinda, Senior Special Assistant to the Minister of FCT, pleading for the method to maneuver ahead. In considered one of such letters dated July 19, 2024, the residents affiliation wrote to the FCT Minister in regards to the ‘’varied unlawful actions of the brokers of Prince and Princess Estate Limited (the developer)’’. The letter famous, amongst different issues, that the developer has ‘’refused/failed to supply the necessities for the issuance of CofO as lately communicated to them by the FCDA, thereby leaving the pursuits of homeowners in jeopardy with reference to the latest efforts of the Minister on the issuance of the Cof O.”
Prince and Princess Estate is without doubt one of the foremost gated communities in Abuja, with a number of properties and over 7,000 residents.
