After months of warnings with valid quit notices, the Federal Capital Territory Administration ( FCTA), Monday stormed another area in Gwarimpa District, demolishing multiple illegal structures said to have been built on road corridors.
The illegal structures used as both residential and commercial purposes, occupied a large chunk of the major interchange linking Gwarimpa to Karasana and Kafe Districts.
Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to FCT Minister, Ikharo Attah, who led the team said reclaiming the road corridors within the districts had become very important to the administration.
Attah noted that more worrisome about the demolished place is reports that many criminal activities were traceable to the place.
He said while there are plans by the administration to implement the road projects within that corridor, there was need for the environmental nuisances to be cleared.
Attah said: “There is excessive encroachment to the road corridors and there have been too much reports of criminal activities.
“We marked this place two years ago, remarked it last year and it was also marked again in May this year.
“It is sad that the people waited after these markings and warnings. The only structures that will not be touched here are the ones belonging to indigenous people.”
