By Ben Kati
Few days after the Christmas and New Year celebrations, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has resume the removal of illegal settlers, scavengers and traders.
At the commencement of the exercise in Gwarimpa area of Abuja, over hundreds of the shanties hitherto used for residential and commercial purposes were dismantled.
Mostly affected were illegal structures and scrap materials sitting on a right of way of a major road network around Angwan Berberi, off Efab Estate, and behind Kado Fish Market, near Lifecamp axis of Gwarinpa District of Abuja.
Explaining the exercise, Ikharo Attah, the Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to the FCT Minister, said the action followed a complaint sent to the FCT Administration through Command and Control Centre, due to high level of proliferation of shanties, scavengers (aka Baba-Bolas) and others in the area.
Attah said the FCT Administration had discovered a very worrisome development on the road, which is Cadastral C02 road corridor in Gwarinpa, which people started building houses on it.
“We cleared all the shanties and we have marked the houses, and warned people to be aware of two areas they must not build on- road corridors and waterways.
“FCTA has given them enough time to move, some of them we have removed before, and they returned. So we keep giving enough time over and over again, and the question is we have given you enough time, but have you given the government enough time before coming to put illegalities?
“Most of the FCDA road corridors are transit ways not yet constructed, but people have already build on them”.Attah said.
