FCTA Demolishes Shanties Near National Assembly

In continuation of measures to curb insecurity in the FCT as well as clean up the city, the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Wednesday mobilised bulldozers into high brow Three Arms Zone and demolished shanties and other criminal hideouts close to the National Assembly, Abuja.

Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to FCT Minister, Ikharo Attah, during the demolition explained that in order to make the Three Arms Zone safe and improve the aesthetics of the area, the Administration had to remove all the shanties and other illegal structures.

According to the SSA, “We came to remove shanties and illegal containers around the National Assembly within the Three Arms Zone because it is not good Al all for criminal elements to hibernate there, deface the area and constitute a security threat to lawmakers, the presidency and very senior members of the judiciary.

“We can’t have all these sensitive offices here and have all these people here, some of the houses people are living here were used for construction sites in the 80s and it has been decommissioned a long time ago and everyone should go.”

He said about 100 shanties were removed in the exercise and that there was no going back on the removal of all illegal shanties and structures in Abuja.

Director, Development Control, Muktar Galadima, said the Administration making arrangements to have a good design that would fit into the existing environment.