FCTA inaugurates  High-powered team to sustain ongoing City Sanitation 

Favour Ishember, Abuja

Worried about the  illegalities that have continued to thrive at different parts of the territory, the Federal Capital Territory Administration ( FCTA) has inaugurated a high-powered interagency task team to sustain the ongoing City wide  sanitation,  comprising demolition of illegal structures, impounding and crushing of errant Commercial Motorcycles and fight against criminalities.

 Senior Management Directors drawn from different critical Secretariats, Departments and Agencies ( SDGs) were to build more synergies with the Office of Senior Special Assistant to FCT Minister on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement, to ensure holistic operations  that will meet all standards.

Leading the Team, the Executive Secretary, Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), Engr. Shehu,  disclosed to newsmen on Wednesday that FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello was worried that illegalities have continued to thrive at different parts of the territory.

Hadi noted that to underscore the importance of the ongoing exercise, meant to return sanity to Abuja, the Minister has deemed it fit to incorporate more people in the team.

In the words of the ES: ” the Task Team resolve to continue with this exercise to ensure that crime and criminality that is induced by the proliferation of illegal structures, shanties and illegal operation of Commercial Motorcycles is controlled and brought to the barest minimal.

” The FCT Administration through the relevant SDAs (FEMA) is  to employ  appropriate mechanism to ensure profiling of all IDPs with the view to take further actions.

” Similarly, owners of plots of land within the cleared areas should be identified and notified to take possession of their plots of Land to forestall any possibility of come back by such miscreants”.

Also Speaking,  Senior Special Assistant to FCT Minister on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement,  Ikharo Attah debunked the reports making rounds that the taskforce have been abusing human rights during its operations.

Attah explained that the operations of the taskforce have always been guided by internationally accepted standards,  where even glaring suspects of crimes where deemed innocent,  until a court of law decides otherwise.

According to him, occupiers of illegal lands, whose structures are been demolished,  have always been given notices, while the administration also warn residents of the dangers in buying land from the locals.

He explained that for the Commercial motorcyclists, they have been severally warned desist from operating in all the places were their activities are restricted.