The Chairman of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Ministerial Task Force on City Sanitation, Mr Ikharo Attah, has said the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has mandated the task force to do a total cleanup of Mpape area of the FCT.
The task force had penultimate week carried out demolition in Mpape, a sprawling slum opposite Maitama District, off the AYA-Kubwa Expressway.
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Mr Attah, in a statement issued on Sunday, said the demolition exercise would continue, stressing that only 25 per cent of the cleanup exercise had been done.
He urged residents who want to embark on any construction or adjustment work to wait until the operation was over.
He stated that whoever was developing any project in Mpape must go to the FCT Department of Development Control to certify the work and get approval before proceeding.
He said, “We have not gotten to 25 per cent of the total cleanup operation we are supposed to do, but sadly, while we spent the whole of last week doing the evaluation of the entirety of the work done across the city, as well as going on surveillance inspection, what we saw at Mpape was not looking good at all.
“Some persons assumed that we are not going to resume demolition, some even peddled rumours that the task force has been disbanded by the FCT minister.
“If you look at Mpape now, the enormity of illegality that is coming up there is multidimensional.
“The mobile shanties and massive return of umbrella or canopy markets, particularly in the evening, is not good at all.”
