By Stanley Onyekwere
In furtherance its ongoing strategic clean up operations against insecurity and other illegalities, the the joint taskteam of the FCT Administration yesterday stormed Jikwoyi and Kurudu, and dislodged some suspected criminal elements in part of the major satellite towns of Abuja.
It was gathered that two communities have been to be very notorious for cultists activities, with several deaths said to have resulted from their clashes and unprovoked attacks on innocent residents.
According to the Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to FCT Minister, Ikharo Attah, who led the operation, his team would take the war to all parts of Abuja, noting that consistency would bring the desired results.
Attah noted that some government agencies that have their staff residential estates located in the areas, had cried to the administration over the terrifying criminal activities.
Warning that roadside traders whose activities obstruct right of ways won’t be spared, the SSA urged public institutions and other residents in the communities to stop providing covers to criminals by building illegal structures, in guise of promoting economic development.
He reiterated that the ongoing operation against everything that threaten the beauty and glory of Abuja, would be extended to all parts of the city, including the remotest part of FCT.
“ This operation is related to insecurity and other crimes. We have gotten reports from certain government agencies that this area hibernate high profile criminals.
“ The Police has had a very unpleasant experience in this place, when people living in shanties did something.
“ The Minister has always appealed to government institutions to take charge of their neighbourhoods, because Abuja belongs to everybody”, he stressed.
Reacting to the development, Jegede Joseph, a retired public servant who claimed to have lived in the area for over 20 years, said the demolition of the illegal structures springing up everywhere was long overdue.
According to him, cult boys had severally killed people in the area, noting that many of them do not have any significant identity, but lives in the illegal structures.
The octogenarian retiree noted that it was good that government woke up to it’s responsibility, by coming to attack the suspected criminal hideouts.
