Favour Ishember , Abuja
Authorities of the Federal Capital Territory Administration has again, appealed to the owners of undeveloped lands in the Central business District Of Abuja to come and develop their lands or risk being revoked.
Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to FCT Minister, Ikharo Attah made this plea on Thursday, when he led an operation that invade a criminal colony both in Central Business District and Wuse Zone 3 , said to have remained dangerous black spots, from where all manner of criminals hide.
The suspected drug peddlers and other criminal elements abandoned their little Children and Wives, when the Federal Capital Territory Administration Task Force on City Sanitation invaded their hideouts, in the bush located within undeveloped plots of land in the Central Business District.
While many of the suspects escaped, 20 of the them were arrested and handed over to Wuse Divisional Police Headquarters.
Attah who was accompanied by the Heads of the Military, Police and Paramilitary components of the Task Force, said the criminal colonies have remained a source of concern to the Administration.
He vowed that while the criminals continue to defy laws and orders, the Task Force will remain firm in its enforcement.
Attah who also noted that the criminal activities in the areas are thriving, because the owners of the undeveloped plots of land have left it fallow for over two decades.
He disclosed that the Minister having made passionate appeals to the owners of land to come and develop it, may have no other option than to revoke it.
In his words: “What we are seeing here today is very bad for the city. We have cleared these places around September 2021, but the place has been rebuilt because owners of the undeveloped plots have left it fallow for about two to three decades now.
” FCT Minister has called upon them to come and develop these lands, but have not come. The FCTA may have no other option than to think of revoking the plots “.
Also speaking, Deputy Director, Enforcement, Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB), Kaka Bello , lamented that government has been spending a lot of money mobilising human resources for the clean up of the undeveloped plots.
He noted that the Administration may invoke relevant provisions of Environmental laws, and compel owners of the plots of land to pay the cost of the continuous cleaning
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