The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, yesterday
disclosed that it arrested 6,586 hawkers from January to September and
467 minors, out of which 4,729 were convicted with 633 sentenced.
Speaking to Journalists yesterday on the activities of the Abuja
Environmental Protection Board, AEPB, Acting Director, Mrs Aishat
Adebayo, who noted that the administration could not arraign the minors
because of their peculiar situation, however disclosed that the
administration has gone into collaboration with the Police to keep them
in its Juvenile unit, adding that hawkers must leave the Federal Capital
territory against the backdrop that the administration does not allow
it and that they must go to designated areas to carry out their
activities.
The acting Director who also admitted that some of the staff of AEPB
engage in sharp practices, said that over seventy of such staff of the
agency have been reprimanded to serve as deterrent to others.
She however did not give answers to how much the AEPB has raked in
under the period she reviewed, as well as how much the agency spends in
cleaning the nation’s capital city, just as she disclosed that the
revenues collected were paid to the central Treasury, adding that the
AEPB has fourteen lawyers who are civil servants of the FCTA as well as
twenty four Magistrates assigned for the assignment by the FCT Judiciary
department.
Mrs Adebayo also said that the monthly environmental programme was
cancelled because of its failure as residents of the city use the day to
stay in their homes and watch home videos, but said that in the House
to House programme of AEPB, enforcement for abatement of nuisances in
Gaduwa, Yayal Estate, Birnin Kebbi, Yaba Close, Kano Street, among
others have been achieved, adding that between January and August this
year, a total number of houses inspected were 2,393, 2,146 alleged
nuisances abated, 247 court summons served and 157 convicted.
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