The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) in its sustained clean-up exercise aimed at saving Mpape residents from traffic gridlock and criminalities, Wednesday, pulled down shanties, after eight months of embarking on the same exercise in the area.
The Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to the Minister of FCT, Ikharo Attah, who led the exercise said after eight months of pulling down shanties on the ever-busy road, the illegal structures have resurfaced on the road corridors, which become a haven for bad eggs in the area.
He explained that the administration had received complaints of illegal activities being experienced from Crush rock area down to the old market side on the road shoulder.
“After eight months, we are back to Mpape because the criminals have returned to the crush rock area. We have gotten reports that they are back, so we have to quickly come and clear them.
“We are doing two things here, revisiting of sanitation exercise, freeing of the road, encroachment and curbing of criminal activities, especially within the crush rock area.
“The FCT Administration recently launched tourism roadmap, that means that the crush rock area is needed this will change the narrative of tourism, with this cleaning up criminals won’t disturb people going to the tourist area.
“We have also knocked down criminals’ hideouts behind the banks’ area which is the commercial hub. This shows that we are winning in our fight against criminal elements in Mpape,” he stated.