By Daniel Tyokua
Few days after demolishing some illegal structures at Guzape, an outskirt of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), yesterday continued with dismantling of additional illegal ones.
The Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement, Comrade Ikharo Attah revealed that the demolition would help restore order at Guzape.
He warned residents against buying lands from local Chiefs and indigenes, which he said have no right to allocate or sell land to anyone.
Attah added that it is only the Minister of FCT, Malam Muhammad Bello, that has the constitutional power to allocate land.
According to him, “We are here again to continue from where we stopped because some persons in FCDA informed us that we haven’t finished the job.
“The one at Kobi village in Guzape II, all the illegal houses and structures on the road corridors were all removed today in order to give way to the infrastructure work that is ongoing in that area.
“The main Guzape I village, we are trying to remove the illegal structures, and all illegalities here and all encroachment.
“We have warned the non-indigenes to stop buying land from the locals, the locals are up, you can see the village up there, they are in their respective homes watching what is ongoing”.
“We had marked earlier for removal and we are now here to remove them. When we came here they thought the locals will come and tell us when to remove and not when to remove, the locals are in their houses and those who bought land from them are crying and the Minister has asked us to pave way for the infrastructure work that is ongoing in the area”
