FCTA demolishes 349 illegal structures on Abuja airport road

The Federal Capital Territory Administration has demolished over 349 illegal structures along the corridor of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

The demolished sites include Lugbe Berger, Car Wash and Lugbe Zone 5.

The exercise, tagged ‘2021 mother of clean ups’, lasted for over seven hours.

It was said to be a routine exercise on the airport road corridor, which is the gateway into the country’s capital.

It was led by the Chairman, FCT Ministerial Committee on City Sanitation, Ikharo Attah, and accompanied by security personnel and fire service officials.

Attah said the exercise was to ensure that Abuja is maintained in line with the best practices of orderliness and sanitation.

He said the Minister of FCT, Malam Muhammad Bello, who paid a visit to the area recently in the company of FCT Commissioner of Police and some senior military officers, was piqued by the level of infringement in the area.

He said most of the areas designated as car park for the residents, along the fence line, had been converted to shops.

He said, “The people have turned the fence line to motor park, where car owners park and pay N1,000 on a daily basis. In line with the town planning rules and to keep the city clean and safe, we will not to be deterred from this comprehensive clean up show that FCTA is committed to in keeping the city clean.”

The FCTA also lamented that the contravention of the fencing of the organic settlement for the residents that were waiting for resettlement by those living within the area in stark violation of the Abuja master plan.