Traffic build-up: FCTA shuts Dutse Alhaji market 


Following gradual resurgence of traffic build up along Dutse Alhaji Road, authorities of the FCT administration weekend shut down the market for general clean up and renovation.

The gradual return of traffic to the area was said to have been caused by lack of parking space inside the marked, which has been converted to illegally attached shops.

Part of activities of the enforcement exercise included general clean up of the market premises, distilling of its drainage systems and removal of all make shift shops, popularly known as attachment, which took every available space.


The team also cleared the market of broken wooden tables and benches used in blocking passage ways, heaps of littered polythene materials like plastics and nylon papers, as well as stones and general refuse.


All the makeshift shops fastened to walls of the main shops and the others nailed into the ground on walk and drive ways were all removed, assembled and burnt to ashes.


The perimeter fencing of the market earlier built by the current FCT administration, about two years ago, was also given a face lift as it was all painted, besides leveling up of erosion affected portions of the market.


Senior Special Assistant to FCT Minister on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement, Comrade Ikharo Attah, who led the Dutse Alhaji team told journalists that his principal, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, was determined to keep the market clean at all times and ensure its operation does not impede smooth traffic flow along the road thereby causing road users hardship and pain.