Stakeholders insist on restoring Abuja master plan

By Stanley Onyekwere

Some FCT stakeholders Administration have highlighted areas that will help in addressing factors distorting the restoration of Abuja master plan.
At the commemoration of 2023 world earth day with the theme: “invest in our planet” FCTA top officials took turn to speak on the development and restoring sanity of the nation’s capital, Abuja.
The coordinator, Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMAC), Umar Shuaibu called on the residents to stop activities that lead to environmental degradation.
He decried the unending distortion and destruction of the Abuja master plan by the residents.
“Illegal felling of trees, building on water channels and road corridors have distort and destroy the plan for development of Abuja” said Shuaibu.
Similarly, Senior Special Assistant on environment and waste management to the FCT Minister FCT, Tunde Imolehin said the second world earth day celebration in FCT was to guide residents on how to dispose off their waste properly in line with this year’s global theme: “Invest in our planet”.
“To make our stay in this planet meaningful, we must invest wisely. We must take proper care of the environment, conserve and preserve the limited resources.
“The world earth began in 1970 in the United States to highlight the importance of our planet and the conservation of its ecosystems on all continents and oceans. Since then, the world’s attention has been drawn to the challenges facing mankind and the environment and ways to manage them”, he stressed.
In his presentation, the Director FCT Department of Development Control, Mukhtar Galadima disclosed that over 10,000 illegal structures have been demolished in the last eight years with three hundred hectares of land recovered as the administration’s commitment to restore sanity in the territory.
The move, Galadima said, was pertinent to reverse the norms that have been affecting the officials from restoring the master plan and sanity across the city.
Collaborating, the Senior Special Assistant to the Minister of FCT on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement, Ikharo Attah, suggested that the Directorate of Road Traffic Services popularly known as VIO and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) should be carried along as critical stakeholders.