The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has commenced sanitation of all motor parks across the territory.

This is to rid the nation’s capital of the proliferation of illegal motor parks, resolve one-chance, killings and kidnappings and tackle environmental degradation, among others.

The director of the Department of Development Control, Mukhtar Galadima made this known on Tuesday, January 16, while sensitization managers of the motor parks ahead of full enforcement slated for tomorrow (Wednesday).

According to the director, the action was also part of arrangements to clean up the parks and get rid of illegal ones in line with the vision of the FCT Minister, Barrister Nyesom Wike.

It will recalled that, during the early days of his assumption as FCT minister, Wike decried that every available space in Abuja was being turned into a motor park, thereby promoting insecurity and reducing the standards of Abuja.

Galadima said: “We’re trying to see that we sensitize the operators of these illegal motor parks and tell them that we’re giving them deadlines to comply with our directives. The exercise is going to be on so long as they are operating illegally all so we want to make sure that the operators of these motorparks comply with the provisions of the FCT plan, as well as development guidelines. In order to make the city more aesthetically pleasing and functional.”

The director stated that after sanitizing the parks and their surroundings, relevant agencies of government would be handed the parks to prevent further abuses.

He suggested that the cleaned-up parks would be given to the Transportation Secretariat for allocation to competent managers.

He added that the exercise was part of efforts to sanitize the Federal Capital City.

The secretary of the Command and Control Unit, department of security service, FCTA, Dr. Peter Olumuji, on his part, noted that if motor parks were not used for intended purposes, they would turn into areas harbouring criminals who would cause insecurity in the Territory.

He harped on the need to identify all those who work in the parks to be able to fish out bad elements from the bad ones and secure not just the parks but the entire Territory better.

Deputy Director, Monitoring and Enforcement, Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB), Kaka Bello, disclosed that there were a lot of complaints about the lack of motor parks in the FCT.

He berated the situation on misuse of parks provided by the government, vowing that the FCTA would recover and sanitize all the parks and put them to their rightful use.

Chairman of FCT National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Comrade Yusuf Alabi who pledged the support of his union blamed the poor condition of the parks on the fact that they were handed to the wrong persons to manage.

He, therefore, appealed to the FCTA to give the motor parks to the right persons who know how to handle parks. (The Nation)

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