FCTA Tackles Insecurity, Crime In Gudu Market, Abuja
Illegal traders get 72 hour ultimatum
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has expressed concerns over the increasing rate of illegal and criminal activities currently disrupting the peaceful atmosphere around popular Gudu electrical and auto spare parts market in the nation’s capital.
A combined team of FCT Ministerial Committee on City Sanitation and Enforcement squad of Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) visited the market on Friday, March 19, 2021 to sensitize the traders on a subsisting court order.
The team also issued a 72-hour ultimatum to all illegal traders to quit the market or face severe consequences for their actions.
According to the team, there are plans for to enforce the court order meant at riding the market of all illegalities.
Managing Director of Abuja Market Management Limited, Architect Ibrahim Uzaibat said the traders have already been alerted about numerous contraventions and illegal activities that are rubbishing the market’s image among members of the public.
Uzaibat said all major markets in Abuja have approved blueprints that must not be compromised, adding that comprehensive sanitation exercise had commenced in some markets to restore sanity and shop owners’ confidence.
According to him; “A court order has been issued to the traders for them to abate these nuisances. This intervention exercise is billed to take place anytime soon.
“Before it happens however, on behalf of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, we wish to inform every trader, shop owners, market users and other stakeholders in Gudu market Abuja of the plan to sanitize the market of all illegal incursions, trading activities in unauthorised places as well as all criminal elements”, Uzaibat said.
In his intervention, Chairman, of FCT Ministerial Committee on City Sanitation, Ikharo Attah said the move became necessary because the market has clearly been taken over by criminalities that now threaten public safety within the area.
