As the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA ) gears up towards aggressive city sanitation, owners of mechanic workshops, automobile dealers and other occupants, who illegally carry out various trades along the Apo Road corridor, also known as the Outer Southern Expressway (OSEX) have been given a seven-day ultimatum to vacate the area.
Chairman of the newly constituted FCT Ministerial Task Force on City Sanitation, Ikharo Attah, said the FCT Minister, Mallam Muhammad Bello, who expressed his displeasure over the continued defacing of the environment along that road corridor, has ordered that the area’s Master Plan be restored immediately.
Attah, who addressed some groups of business owners affected by the order on Monday at a Stakeholders’ meeting, organised by the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB), stated that the ultimatum was to demonstrate the administration’s empathy for and ensure that actions capable of causing colossal damages were avoided.
He noted that the minister, who recently paid an unscheduled visit to the site of various infrastructural projects along the road axis, was not pleased that some of the illegal occupants were obstructing the on going construction work, as well as defacing the environment.
According to Attah, the first phase of the sanitation exercise, billed to commence on Monday next week after the ultimatum, will reclaim all the spots from Apo Round-about to the popular junction known as Apo NEPA junction.
The second phase of the aggressive sanitation will begin from the NEPA junction to Apo Mechanic Village, where illegal businesses had taken over great portions of the road, making it difficult for contractors to complete their work.
Source: newtelegraphng
