Demolition: FCTA flays Public Complaint Commission over comment
By Daniel Tyokua
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA ) has opposed the call by the Public Complaint Commission (PCC) that the administration should halt the removal of shanties in the city.
Dalhatu Ezekiel, the Public Complaint Commission commissioner for FCT had asked the FCT Administration to stop alleged demolition which he claimed there was a petition regarding the issue in court.
The chairman, FCT Ministerial Committee on City Sanitation, Ikharo Attah, yesterday gave residents of Mpape community a two week demolition notice in view to clear the area.
He noted that the purported directive from a Commissioner of Public Complaint Commission that demolition within the city should be halted, can’t prevent the removal of all illegal structures constituting environmental nuisances.
Attah said that the two weeks notice was in line with the policy of FCT Administration to carry all relevant stakeholders along in sensitisatizing all affected communities, and ensuring maximum compliance.
Attah explained that moving the bulldozers to Mpape for the clean up, was in response to the cry of the residents who had complained that activities of traders and mechanics, illegally occupying the road corridors were obstructing traffic flows.
According to him, after the two weeks, all illegal structures along the road would be demolished, to save the people from any untoward situation that could threaten both human lives and the environment.
