Cultists and other criminal elements may have to take their activities outside the Federal Capital Territory, as the FCT Administration has vowed to extend its ongoing war against insecurity and illegalities to all nooks and crannies of the territory.
The Ministerial Taskforce on City Sanitation had on Thursday stormed the Jikwoyi and Kurudu communities, where it pulled down shanties and other illegal structures providing cover for miscreants in the area.
The two communities have been reported to be very notorious for cultists activities, with several deaths said to have been recorded from from cult clashes and unprovoked attacks on innocent residents.
Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to FCT Minister, Ikharo Attah, who led the operation vowed that his team would take the war to all parts of Abuja, noting that consistency would bring the desired results.
Attah disclosed that some government agencies that have their staff residential estates located in the areas, had cried to the administration over the terrifying criminal activities.
While he urged public institutions and other residents in the communities to stop providing covers to criminals by building illegal structures, in guise of promoting economic development, he also noted that roadside traders whose activities obstruct right of ways won’t be spared.
According to him, the ongoing operation against everything that threaten the aesthetic beauty of Abuja, would be extended to all parts of the city, including the remotest part of FCT.
” This operation is related to insecurity and other crimes. We have gotten reports from certain government agencies that this area hibernate high profile criminals.
” The Police has had a very unpleasant experience in this place, when people living in shanties did something.
” The Minister has always appealed to government institutions to take charge of their neighborhood, because Abuja belongs to everybody.”
A retired public servant, Jegede Joseph, who has lived in the area for over 20 years, said the demolition of illegal structures springing up everywhere was long overdue.
The octogenarian retiree said it was good that government woke up to it’s responsibility, by coming to attack the suspected criminal hideouts.
According to him, cult boys had severally killed people in the area, noting that many of them do not have any significant identity, but live in the illegal structures.
