Gwarinpa: FCTA dislodges road corridor violators

By Stanley Onyekwere

Following months of warnings with valid quit notices, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has stormed Gwarimpa District, demolishing multiple illegal structures, allegedly built on road corridors. 

It was gathered that illegal structures used as both residential and commercial purposes,  occupied a large chunk of the major interchange linking Gwarimpa to Karasana and Kafe Districts.

Explaining the exercise, Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to FCT Minister, Ikharo Attah, who led the team, said reclaiming the road corridors within the districts had become very important to the administration. 

Attah noted that more worrisome about the demolished place, is reports that many criminal activities were traceable there. 

According to him, while there are plans by the administration to implement the road projects within that corridor, there was need for the environmental nuisances to be cleared. 

He said,  “ There is excessive encroachment to the road corridors and there have been too much reports of criminal activities. 

“We marked this place two years ago , remarked it last year, it was also marked again in May this year. 

“It is sad that the people waited after these markings and warnings. The only structures that will not be touched here, are the ones belonging to indigenous people”.

One of the affected persons, Peter Livinus, who stood on the rumbles of his demolished house, looking confused however denied that he was given a quit notice.

He however, admitted that some of the houses in the area were marked, but not his own.

While condemning the actions, saying he has been thrown into untold hardship, he also appealed to government to help and alleviate their sufferings with some palliative.