By Stanley Onyekwere
Some leaders of Mpape Community have decried the takeover of tourism sites by suspected miscreants and criminals, after they were dislodged some months ago.
The Mpape Community host one of the most attractive tourism sites known as the Crush Rock Spring Water, a beautiful underdeveloped tourism site, having the potential for huge revenue generation annually.
The Community leaders expressed their concerns, when they interfaced with the Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to FCT Minister, Ikharo Attah in his office.
They opined that their joy of having a serene environment, void of traffic gridlock and marauding streets urchins, after the last massive clean up exercise embarked on in Mpape by the FCT Ministerial Committee on City Sanitation had been cut off.
According to the Mpape’s Paramount Ruler, Chief Musa Ahmadu, all the places where the Taskforce dislodged illegal occupants, had been fully rebuilt against their wish.
Ahmadu regretted that the miscreants had even deepened their criminal activities at the tourism sites, and were scaring would-be tourists from visiting the Area.
He therefore appealed to FCTA to immediately send its Taskforce to come back to the community and remove the illegal market extension and all the lodges of the criminals within the tourism sites.
Responding to the community’s appeal, Attah noted that it was unfortunate that few people had continued to force government to waste scarce resources on demolishing illegal structures.
He reiterated that FCT Administration had expected that all residents would have heeded the warnings and stop promoting illegalities, as a way of helping the government save resources for better development.
He assured that the demolition bulldozers would soon return to Mpape Community, to sustain the clean up exercise.
Attah also warned the miscreants and all the residents who have disregard for extant laws, and are rebuilding the demolished illegal structures to desist from it.
He however, warned that while the miscreants who are allegedly retaking the tourism sites will be arrested and prosecuted accordingly.
