The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Wednesday, warned indigenous people in Abuja to stop renting out the economic trees cashew plantations to scavengers, Babanbola and pan takers.
The senior special assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to the Minister of FCT, Ikharo Attah, stated this when he led a clean-up exercise in Mabushi and Jahi area in Abuja.
He lamented that it is unacceptable for owners of undeveloped land or building under construction to rent out their properties for illegal land use different from what was in the plan.
He added that henceforth, the administration will report the owner of the property to the police and if the criminality is much, “we will report to the minister to take the necessary action.”
He said: “We are removing babanbolas, shanties, around Mabushi area close to Orji Uzor Kalu’s house, FCT Commissioner of Police, Sunday Babaji, urged the FCT minister, Muhammad Bello, for need to actually clear this area in order to make this area more secured.
“The minister of FCT directed us to clear all babanbola in this area, just by Orji Uzor Kalu’s house and we are clearing so much shanties and babanbola.
“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. This is a high brow area and it won’t be right for babanbola to stay here. We will be handing them over to appropriate agencies to locate the owners of the identity card and international passport.
“We also saw custom’s helmet, we saw police cap, official coat of arms which can be for one government agency.”
