By Daniel Tyokua
The Federal Capital Territory Administration Joint Task Force team with officials of the Department of Development Control have destroyed an area suspected to be scavengers den.
Bulldozers on Tuesday rolled into the area and cleared all shanties, batchers and warn out car tyres.
Director, FCT Department of Development Control, Murkhtar Galadima, said the FCTA has taken decisive decision to remove all shanties serving as haven for the scavengers to perpetrate their heinous activities.
He said the exercise was carried out to restore sanity in the area towards ensuring the safety of residents
Galadima emphasized the importance of maintaining a clean city and called on residents to cooperate with the administration in it’s drive to keep Abuja clean and beautiful.
“The ongoing clean up exercise is a continuous efforts of FCTA to clean the city. We call on the public to support us to keep the city clean. We have carried out similar exercise in different areas of FCT-; Katampe, Area one , Apo, and so on, today is Mabushi and we are not relenting.”
On the security implication of the Mabushi clean up, the Secretary, FCTA Command and Control Center, Peter Olumuji, who said residents will sleep with their two eyes closed.
While the reported cases of attacks on innocent citizens at night would drastically minimized.
” the sanitation issue here is very poor. Mabushi has become a source of worry and concern, both to those residing here and Government offices around here.The clearance here is to ensure that the increasing crime is curbed.
“We have gotten reports of phones being snatched from people in the evening time and people are being stabbed in their vehicles, even when they parked because of these shanties here, so we have to clear this environment.”
Olumuji added that efforts would be intensified to monitor and secured the recovered portions of lands from the hoodlums .
The Head of Monitoring and Enforcement, Abuja Environment Protection Board, Mr Kaka Bello reiterated the Board’s commitment to continue to address all forms of environmental nuisances to make the city conducive for healthy living.
