ABUJA — The Department of Development Control officials of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) and security personnel have removed illegal structures on road corridors and cashew plantations within Apo Resettlement in Abuja.
On Sunday, the officials stormed the area with bulldozers and pulled down structures of hundreds of artisans, food vendors, and petty traders whose structures encroached on roads.
The cashew plantations near Urban Shelter and Angwan Tiv were marked for demolition in 2021.
Mukhtar Galadima, FCTA Director, said the government’s actions, targeted at shanties and other structures constituting infractions, followed due process.
“We are on our weekly clean-up exercise to clear shanties and other illegal structures in the city.
”From credible intelligence, what was happening was beyond eatery…sometimes it goes into criminality”, he said.
Galadima said the authority had issued notices ahead of the demolition.
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