The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, on Tuesday removed several structures around the ever busy Jabi motor Park for failings integrity test.
Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to the minister of FCT, Ikaro Attah who headed the demolition, said the essence of the clean up was to protect lives of residents while also restoring the Abuja master plan that has been infringed upon by some property owners.
He also explained that most of the buildings failed integrity test while others and can not be allowed to stand because of contravention.
Attah stated that the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, malam Muhammad Bello has given the demolition team the mandate to bring about sanity by removing all illegal structures to pave way for the new approved Jabi motor Park plan.
He said, “Yesterday, we removed the illegal structures and today we are removing those structures that are death trap and have failed integrity test as well, the exercise is not limited to insecurity.
“The Scavengers are not stopping us from doing our work, but we are disturbed because they have taken over the whole place” Attah said.
Our correspondent report that scavengers had a field day at Lagos line area of the park, which is the last phase of the demolition exercise in the area with many of them picking scrap metals despite the heavy presence of combined security men.
However, one of the traders at the scene, Joy Johnson decried the demolition and described it as frustrating of common people.
“I didn’t feel good, other traders too are not happy. It is frustrating. We are very angry because we don’t know what the country is turning into, does it mean the government want us to be roaming the street?
“We deserve to be given two to three years demolition notice, how can people be treated this way?
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