By Daniel Tyokua
The minister of FCT Malam Muhammad Bello at the weekend met with heads of all security agencies over their combined efforts to bring about sanity across the territory.
During the meeting, he expressed satisfaction with the ongoing enforcement activities by the FCT Taskforce on City Sanitation, as they are aimed at ensuring the restoration and maintenance of sanity in Abuja.
Bello, who made this assertion during an interface with heads of enforcement related departments in FCTA, affiliate operational commander, and field commanders from various security agencies involved in enforcement activities in the FCT, said without enforcement it would not be possible to attain sanity in the city.
He noted that all the demolitions and other enforcement activities especially those affecting high profile persons that the Taskforce have done, he had no reason to intervene, and stop such actions.
According to him: “Honestly, I appreciate you all for what you have been doing. All the demolitions; all the arrests that you have made, no big man could call me to stop you, because they know I don’t do so (I won’t), that’s why they don’t talk about it. So, just go and do your work.
“What I’m telling you is exactly the feeling of the Commander in chief also, because we have to enforce.
“Without enforcement, is not possible, the difference between us and animals is enforcement simply, and we in the Administration have to try our best to help you”.
Similarly, FCT Permanent Secretary, Mr. Olusade Adesola, said the authorities are really feeling the impact of the taskforce, as their work is very palpable and appealing to the stakeholders.
This, he however noted couldn’t have been possible without the political will and support of the Hon. FCT Minister, who always want the right thing to be done.
