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FCT: 400 illegal structures demolished in Lugbe

THE Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) yesterday demolished over 400 illegal structures in Lugbe along the Nnamdi  Azikiwe International Airport.

Some of the structures are found to be safe haven for criminals and settlers.

Director of Security Services, Adamu Gwary, vowed that the administration will not fold its hands and watch criminals overrun the city.

Gwary told reporters that the FCT  Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello, has continued to show disdain for illegal structures spreading along across the city, posing security threat to the residents.

He assured that with the minister’s political will the removal of illegal structures will be sustained.

Similarly, the Chairman, FCT Ministerial Committee on City Sanitation, Ikharo Attah, said the operation was occasioned by the need to strengthen national security in the nation’s capital.

Attah explained that the administration had received disturbing reports that some illegal makeshift structures were being erected along the Airport road despite several demolitions.

On his part, the Chief Security Officer to the FCT Minister, Ahmed Rashid, also disclosed that the administration has also identified strategies that the scavengers, criminals and illegal settlers are adopting and where they are hibernating. He stated, “and we are dislodging them.”

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