The FCT Administration (FCTA) on Tuesday vowed to intensify the ongoing cleanup exercise at Dei-Dei and its environs, noting that both criminality and environmental nuisance there had reached a worrisome point.
The exercise, which commenced with the removal of illegal warehouses and shanties around the Dei-Dei junction, is said to be a continuation of a city-wide cleanup.
The Senior Special Assistant to the FCT Minister on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement, Ikharo Attah, said the minister had directed that all contraventions within the Dei-Dei axis be tackled immediately.
Attah, who noted that Dei-Dei had become very volatile and a hub for worrisome criminal activities, vowed that the joint task force would ensure that sanity returned to the community.
Attah explained that, “The FCT minister passed through this place and frowned bitterly at what he saw around here, and for a very long time enforcement hasn’t come to Dei-Dei because it is a very volatile region. Dei-Dei junction is very notorious, coupled with the traffic problem here.’’
Also speaking, the Director of Development Control, Muktar Galadima, provided insight on the issue of government officials who aided the growth of illegality in Dei-Dei.
Galadima disclosed that such officers had been identified and transferred out from the department, while also subjecting them to all the administrative processes that would make them account for their misdeeds.
The director noted that the warehouses indiscriminately springing up at Dei-Dei had engineering problems, were without requisite approval or encroached on road corridors.
The Assistant Director of Enforcement, Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB), Kaka Bello, disclosed that plans had been marshalled to keep the environmental nuisance in Dei-Dei in check.
