Bello stated this during an interactive session with the House of Representatives Committee on FCT. He also said the ministry would hold a stakeholders’ conference on the matter in March, next year. “We feel that the Abuja Master Plan should be reviewed. In fact, we have already started working on that, and by March 2017, we’ll hold a stakeholders’ conference on that. We have already commenced a series of interventions,” he said. Bello, who said the FCT could not cater for the massive influx of Nigerians from different parts of the country into the capital city added that the administration has commenced works on the creation of informal markets within the city for people to go during weekends. Speaking on the collection of tenement rates, Bello said; “Those collecting the taxes have been directed to stop. We’re also trying and communicating to the residents on the exact position. By the time the pending issues are sorted out, all previous payments made would be adjusted. Where there is an under-payment, refund would be made and vice-versa.” He assured that all cases of wrongdoing related to the tenement rates collection would be dealt with accordingly by an ad-hoc committee he constituted on the matter. Thus, the committee declared that all individuals going round the FCT in the name of carrying out valuation must stop immediately, assuring that the matter would be amicably resolved in the next few weeks. “We know that taxes are good for good governance, but we require a good system of taxation for people to contribute their own fair share to the development of the country,” he added.]]>