By Daniel Tyokua
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) is aggrieved with the conversion of Kuje abattoir to residential houses by Kuje Area Council residents.
Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to the minister of FCT, Ikharo Attah during demolition of the illegal structures on Tuesday in Kuje, said despite two months cleanup in the area, more need to be done to restore the sanity.
He described the situation as unacceptable, calling on those who converted abattoir and railway corridors to relocate.
Attah lamented the level of illegalities in Kuje which has been going on in the last 2 months.
He said: “This is still the ongoing Kuje cleanup, this is about 6 hectre that is earmarked for vegetable market.
“Some parts of it were sold to places of worship, filling station, gas station, houses and other, so we are reclaiming it so that we can move everyone at the road corridor in Kuje to this place. This place has also been a very good place for criminals hideout and we are clearing it so that we can move people from the market road corridor to this place”.
On compensation, he said :”The Council Chairman has agreed to pay compensation to all those who planted trees here because some of them need to be compensated. We have to pay them compensation” .
“Despite all the work we have done in Kuje for over two months we haven’t reach 20% of the cleanup in kuje, We just discovered that the abattoir has been excessively built upon for now we haven’t been able to reach 20% of the entire illegalities in Kuje. We will be doing it when the rain subsides” he said.
