Insecurity: ‘We’ll continue to demolish encroached rail corridor, criminal enclaves’

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has vowed to sustain the demolition of illegal structures, markets and shanties built on the encroached rail corridor in Gwarimpa.

The Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to the Minister of FCT, Comrade Ikharo Attah, disclosed this shortly after the clean-up exercise in Gwarimpa.

The joint tasks team which comprises FCTA senior officials, Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police Force, Federal Road Safety Corps, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, The Nigeria Immigration Service The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Department of State Services, Directorate of Road Traffic Services, and Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) stormed the rail corridor unannounced to begin the demolition of shanties, market and batchers defacing the satellite town.

“We are here for several reasons; the first one is that there have been a series of complaints over this place. Secondly, the issue of city sanitation is a problem here and general issues of insecurity here. This is Hayari kasua market, we cleared it last year and this year we have come again to clear it because the traders returned.

“he Police Commissioner, Sunday Babaji, and Police DPO in Gwarimpa have gotten reports of criminal activities going on here, residents have complained very bitterly of persons trying to hide here as cover to rob neighborhoods and that has been very alarming.

“Today, some arrests were made of people carrying illicit drugs and were arrested by the NDLEA of the Command and Control JTF team under the CP of FCT and the DC Bernard Iwe.

“The Police also arrested three suspected criminals and the NDLEA arrested two people peddling drugs. This is a big task, but we are not giving up. We will keep coming until they stop coming. We came under the rain for the enforcement,” Attah said.