By Daniel Tyokua
Leaders in Mpape Community an outskirt of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), are worried as hoodlums return to tourism sites in the area after they were dislodged some months ago.
The area host one of the most attractive tourism sites known as the Crush Rock Spring Water. A beautiful underdeveloped tourism sites, said to have the potential for unbelievable revenue generation annually.
The leaders during a meeting with the Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to FCT Minister, Ikharo Attah in his office at the weekend, expressed concerns over the retaking of the sites by the miscreants and suspected criminals.
They noted that their joy of having a serene environment, void of traffic gridlock and marauding streets urchins, after the last massive clean up exercise embarked on in Mpape by the FCT Ministerial Taskforce on City Sanitation had been cut off.
Mpape’s Paramount Ruler, Musa Ahmadu noted with dismay that all the places where the Taskforce dislodged illegal occupants, had been fully rebuilt against their wish.
He regretted that the Miscreants had even deepened their criminal activities at the tourism sites, and were scaring would-be tourists from visiting the Area.
Musa urged FCTA to immediately send its Taskforce to come back to the community and remove the illegal market extension and all the lodges of the criminals within the tourism sites.
Responding, Attah explained that it was unfortunate that few people had continued to force government to waste scarce resources on demolishing illegal structures.
He said FCT Administration had expected that all residents would have heeded to the warnings and stop promoting illegalities, as a way of helping the government save resources for better development.
According to him, the demolition bulldozers would soon return to Mpape Community to sustain the clean up exercise.
Attah also warned the miscreants and all the residents who have disregard for extant laws, and are rebuilding the demolished illegal structures to desist from it.
