Insecurity: FCTA dislodges more miscreants’ camp

By Daniel Tyokua

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has dislodged more miscreants’ camp constituting security threats and nuisances in strategic areas across the city.

The administration in continuation of its demolition of unplanned structures on Thursday, dismantled most of the shanties used by scavengers suspected to be hoodlums at Katampe near Maitama.

Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to the Minister of FCT, Ikharo Attah, who led the operation, urged the indigenes that do rent their cashew farm to scavengers to desist from it.

Attah said: “Part of our work is to rid the city of babanbola, criminally minded refuse collector, We came here in Katampe, where we met them heavily hidden in this cashew area, and we have gone ahead to remove them.

“They are people who are largely tied to crime, we even saw someone’s plate number, we asked them what are you doing with someone’s plate number, they couldn’t explain, so we had to collect it from them. Sometimes we see female handbag, shoes, cloths it may be because women are vulnerable and that is why”

He reiterated the commitment of the administration in removing scavengers colonies in Federal Capital City (FCC).

“We are going after babanbola strongly in Abuja, the Minister has given us a matching order while all the security chiefs are giving us maximum support, that we must go and remove all the babanbolas in their colonies across Abuja especially across FCC.

“They are very dangerous people, maybe some indigenous owners of cashew trees rent out their cashew plantation to them or some are being chased out and their farm being taken over by these dangerous elements, we will keep removing them”

“Some of the indigenes have said they don’t rent the cashew plantation to them. Some said they enter their cashew plantation in large numbers and threaten them and for their own safety they leave it and disappear”.