Federal Capital Development Authority was created to control the infrastructural and physical expansion (design, planning, and construction) of the new Nigerian Federal Capital, Making sure that it meets or exceeds the standards of new Capital cities around the world, paying exceptional consideration to inclusivity, functionality, aesthetics, and design.
ESTABLISHMENT
The Federal Capital Development
Authority (FCDA) is a conception of Decree No.6 of February 5, 1976 quoted as
the Federal Capital Territory Act. The Decree, which bestowed ownership and
control of all land in Abuja to the Federal Government also gives the FCDA the burden
of handling the design, planning and construction of the Federal Capital
Territory with the functions blow:
1) To pick out a site within the Capital Territory for
the location of the Capital City
2) To organize a Master Plan for the use of land in
the Capital City along with the rest of the Capital Territory;
3) To provide public/community services inside the
Capital Territory;
4) To establish infrastructure for example roads,
railways, bridges, reservoirs, water course buildings and other such works as
may be required in the FCT
5) To co-ordinate the activities and tasks of the Area
Councils, Departments and other Agencies of the government of the Federation
within the FCT.
The Management of the Federal Capital Development Authority
The Executive Secretary of the
Authority is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who leads and runs the routine management
of the Authority. In addition he is supported by an Executive Management
Committee (EMC). The EMC comprise of Directors of Departments and Heads of
Units of the Authority; there is also a 10 (ten) member Board constituted by
the President to formulate guidelines and supervise the activities of the
Authority on a part time basis.
The FCDA Board is headed by the
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory. But with the transformation agenda
of the previous Administration of Mallam Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai the former
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja from 16 July 2003 to 29 May
2007, the FCDA had its departments re-structured into nine (9) departments and
four (4) Specialized Units as listed below:
Departments
1. Finance and Administration
2. Urban and Regional Planning
3. Engineering Services
4. Resettlement and Compensation
5. Public Building
6. Surveying and Mapping Units
7. Mass Housing
8. Satellite Town Infrastructure
9. Procurement
Units
1) Internal Audit
2) Special Project/IT
3) Legal Services
4) Public Relations and Protocol.
The (Defunct) Ministry of the Federal Capital Territory
When the FCDA was formed in 1976 to supervise
the development of the new Federal Capital City of Nigeria, it was administered
by a Board that was initially chaired by Dr. Ali Mazauri.
Later in 1979, it was given the status of a Ministry which was the Ministry of the Federal Capital Territory (MFCT). This Ministry (now defunct) was then created by way of an official Gazette Extraordinary No.55, volume 66 of October 26, 1979 and charged with the following tasks:
Later in 1979, it was given the status of a Ministry which was the Ministry of the Federal Capital Territory (MFCT). This Ministry (now defunct) was then created by way of an official Gazette Extraordinary No.55, volume 66 of October 26, 1979 and charged with the following tasks:
I.
Planning and development within the
FCT;
II.
Control of development within the
FCT;
III.
Arrangement for the provision of
social services;
IV.
Administration of the FCT;
V.
Allocation of urban and rural lands
in the FCT; and
VI.
Relations with the FCDA
Even though the
FCDA and the MFCT were literally merged to a point where both shared the same
Departments of Administration and Finance, the FCDA still maintains its own
management board. And this was the status quo up until the tenure of the 3rd
FCDA Board (2002-2004) when an attempt at a de-merger was actually undertaken.
On the other hand,
in 2004, the then FCT Minister, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, obtained the President's
endorsement to wind up the Ministry of the Federal Capital Territory (MFCT).
And in line with that approval as contained in the Federal Capital Territory's
(Establishment of functionaries and Departments) and the Federal Capital
Territory's (Dissolution) order No. 1 of 2004, the MFCT stopped to exist on May
31st, 2004. The Ministry is now well-known and referred to as the Federal
Capital Territory Administration-(FCTA).
Barrister Nyesom Wike and Dr. Mariya Mahmud officially began their roles as the 17th and 12th Ministers of State of the Federal Capital Territory on August 21, 2023. Their inauguration, conducted by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, took place at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Vision:
The vision is to build a first-class Capital City and Territory as good as the best Capital Cities and Territories in the world.
Mission:
The mission is to
build Abuja City and the Territory in compliance with the Abuja master plan, taking into consideration all the aims that necessitated the movement of the Nigeria Federal Capital from Lagos, and to establish a result-oriented supervision
with continuous emphasis on service delivery.
