…..insist on sustaining sanitation orders
Favour Ishember, Abuja
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has warned residents against the habit of abusing the development regulations of the nation’s capital, insist on sustaining the ongoing sanitation and traffic control around Satellite towns.
Chairman, FCT Ministerial Committee on City Sanitation, Ikharo Attah who gave this warning, stated that , with the matching order given by the Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello to checkmate development activities and ensure that contraventions do not fester, said the Department of Development Control won’t relent in demolishing illegal structures built anywhere.
Attah who led a combined team of the task force in continuation of the exercise yesterday, stated that over 80 illegal shanties demolished at Gwarimpa were encouraging insecurity and criminalities within the neighbourhood.
He explained that the exercise at Nyanya was targeted at removing the partaker market and all obstruction and human activities to the road dualization to ease traffic gridlock.
Attah said the Minister had expressed displeasure over human activities that are responsible for the return of traffic gridlock on FCT roads, saying that the administration will do everything possible to clear all illegalities.
He added that the structures demolished at Angwan ndadi, a suburb of Nyanya was a total contraventions that shrank the street into a very narrow path, and it was committed by lawless residents.
“FCTA is making enormous commitment towards the provision of infrastructures in Abuja, and would do everything within the law to protect sanity of the city.
” today we removed over 80 makeshift structures at Gwarimpa due to intensive security report and criminal activities around the area
” We also removed the pantaker market at Nyanya that have been disturbing traffic, we also demolished three structures built on top of the roads and conscripted the road at Angwa ndadi. There have been complaints about the buildings since 2010, and every efforts towards removing it proved abortive, the were successfully removed.
” The city is getting crowded everyday and people are coming in and engaging in so many illegalities, but we will not allow it. We will sustain the exercise”.
