By Daniel Tyokua
Hoodlums have attacked a police officer and some officials of the Federal Capital Territory Ministerial Taskforce Team on City Sanitation in Abuja.
Trouble ensued on Thursday when members of the team entered Gaduwa in Gudu District and started marking of illegal houses for demolition.
Recall that flood wrecked havock in Lokogoma area of Gudu District early Wednesday, and displaced some residents.
The injured Police officer and some of the injured officials were said to have been taken to hospital for treatment, with other officials taken hostage later released, following a rapid response from the rescue team of FCT Police Command , led by Deputy Commissioner of Police for Operations, Bernard Igwe.
Confirming the incident, Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to FCT Minister, Ikharo Attah, who was on another Ministerial duty at flood- devastated areas in Lokogoma condemned the act.
He said that some officials of the Development Control attached to the Taskforce, who went to Gaduwa Community to mark some illegal houses springing up indiscriminately in the community, were heavily resisted and attacked by some persons bearing different dangerous weapons.
Attah commended some indigenous youths who helped in calming the situation, and work towards the release of the hostages.
He said with the quick intervention of the re-enforced rescue team, the miscreants were overpowered.
“I was sent somewhere by the Minister and before I could arrive the scene, the Police officer who was badly injured on the head and others had been rushed to hospital for treatment” He said.
