Abuja flood: Demolition will reach every part of FCT – Wike declares

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has announced that ongoing demolitions targeting amerciable structures built connected drainage channels volition grow from Maitama District crossed the full territory without exception.

Speaking during a property briefing successful Abuja connected Wednesday, pursuing an extended inspection circuit of large infrastructure projects crossed the Federal Capital Territory, the FCT Minister emphasised the administration’s steadfast stance connected enforcing biology and municipality compliance.

“We conscionable started somewhere. After that, we volition determination to different area. We are not going to extremity wherever we started yesterday. We are precise superior and I tin archer you that we are not going back. It doesn’t substance who is affected,” Minister Wike declared.

Dismissing disapproval regarding owed process anterior to the demolitions, the curate noted that blocking earthy waterways gives country for flooding, threatening nationalist safety: “You went to artifact a h2o channel, is that owed process? I’m the 1 pursuing owed process to marque definite the close happening is being done… By the clip we region those structures that artifact the h2o channel, determination volition beryllium escaped travel of h2o to wherever it is expected to be.”

In summation to clearing waterways, Wike announced an immediate, territory-wide prohibition connected the unauthorised conversion of nationalist re...