FCTA mulls massive tree planting along Airport Road

By Stanley Onyekwere 

The FCT Administration said plans were underway to embark on  massive beautification and tree planting along the Airport road. 

This was disclosed yesterday, by Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to FCT Minister, Ikharo Attah, during an advocacy and sensitisation visit to Sauka Community in the area 

He reiterated that the FCT Minister remained committed to ensuring sanitation of the nation’s capital and will not also compromise on the cleanliness of all the gateways to the city centre.

He noted that Sauka community as one of the strategic settlements along the airport road axis, had some contraventions which need to be quickly corrected. 

According to him, the clean up exercise in Sauka community had been delayed because the Minister doesn’t want to inflict hardship on the people without following due process. 

He however,  expressed satisfaction that the youths of the community had commenced enforcement and removal of some of the illegal structures, like the roadside market that constitute nuisances along the road corridors. 

“The Minister wants us commence massive  tree planting and land scaping on the stretch of airport road. We are also going to embark on refuse evacuation and intra community refuse collection  points . We appealing to all residents to key into the clean up programme.

“ We have given them ultimatum before but they begged us to give them till today but inline with the spirit , we will communicate to them and give them a short notice”, Attah said.

One of the youth leaders, Jubrin Kasimu who pleaded for an extension of the deadline given to the community to vacate the roadside market, also assured that the youth will continue to enforce compliance. 

Also, Kasimu pledged to mobilize the youths to stop all contraventions that will attract sanctions to the community.