Senate Moves To Stop Excessive Rent Collection In Abuja

In a bid to arrest the incessant rent collection in the Federal Capital Territory; Abuja where it has becomes a trend for the Abuja landlords, the Senate have decided to come to the aid of tenants by way of bringing up a bill which move into an act that will protect the tenants from this unnecessary exploitation by these landlords.
The bill is seeking to stop these landlords from taking an advance collection of two years, to ameliorate the increasing hardships faced by tenants and to make housing affordable and rents sustainable especially for low income earners, who constitute the majority of FCT residents.
The bill which was sponsored by Senator Smart Adeyemi had most of the lawmakers in support that the housing sector be rationalized by an act of parliament, that government on its own part must embark on mass housing if it must successfully clamp down on excessive rent collection in the FCT.