The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has cautioned Abuja natives against renting out their economic trees and plantations to scavengers and operators of ‘Pantekars’ in the territory.
Mr Ikharo Attah, Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to the FCT Minister, issue the warning when he led a clean up exercise in Mabushi and Jahi areas of Abuja, on Wednesday.
Attah said that it was unacceptable for owners of undeveloped plots of land or buildings under construction to rent out their properties for illegal land use different from what was in the master plan.
He warmed that henceforth, the FCT Administration would report the owner of the property to the police, if the criminality spiked.
According to him, “we will report to the Minister to take the necessary actions.
” We are removing scavengers’ shanties, around Mabushi area, close to Orji Uzor Kalu’s House.
“The FCT Commissioner of Police, Sunday Babaji, advised the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello, on the need to actually clear this area in order to make this area more secured.
“Consequently, the minister directed us to clear all scavengers in this area, just by Orji Uzor Kalu’s house, we are clearing many shanties and scavengers’ dens.
“It is part of our agenda to clear the city and today we found someone’s national identity card and international passport, that was probably stolen.”
He said the area was a high brow one and it won’t be right for scavengers to stay there .
“We will be handing them over to appropriate agencies to locate the owners of the identity card and international passport, ”he said.
