By Joyce Remi- Babayeju
The Federal Capital Territory Administration , FCTA, has warned residents of setting up illegal structures around Sauka as it engaged Community leaders and other stakeholders to explain the rationale behind the aggressive cleanup exercise and removal of illegal structures around the road corridors within the area.
It further disclosed that plans are on the he pipeline to plant trees along the road corridors, calling on residents of the community to help protect the environment.
Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to FCT Minister, Ikharo Attah who addressed the stakeholders from the community added that the cleanup may be extended beyond the road corridors if the residents resort to further illegal development.
Attah noted that FCT Minister who earlier visited the community and saw the growing illegal structures and other developmental infractions is bent ensuring that the axis of the Airport road corridor is fully cleaned up.
Attah who noted that Sauka community located few kilometres away from the popular Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, is strategically located along the major gateway to the City center, hence the efforts to rid the place of all nuisances.
” Our coming to Sauka was due to the Minister’s visit, during which he complained that the illegal activities at the fringes of the community was constituting nuisance.”
” The cleanup around the area may last for a long time, because from our investigation the illegal activities are still going on there, especially around the Mosque. ”
Unfortunately, the Chief’s house falls within the area where the Minister asked us to cleanup. We are hoping that the residents do the needful and to stop all forms of illegalities”, Attah added.
The Community leaders, led by the Counsellor representing Guiyi Ward in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Hon. Sunday Bikko and some of the Chiefs pledged to halt all illegal structures going on in the community.
They reached a consensus to pull down the illegal markets and motor park located by the road corridors which constitutes nuisance in the community.
