The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has given a two-week ultimatum to Pantaker traders at Mabushi Cashew Forest in the territory to vacate the notorious criminal hideouts or face demolition of the area without mercy.
The senior special assistant on monitoring, inspection and enforcement to the FCT minister, Comrade Ikharo Attah, gave the ultimatum yesterday at a stakeholders’ meeting with the Gwan-Gwan Traders Association Mabushi in Abuja.
Attah said after the two weeks grace, whatever was left in the area would be demolished “without empathy and sympathy”, and they decided to give them two weeks because they appealed for enough time to move their property from the area.
“Please do not give us chance to remove your valuables because the bulldozer will not know how valuable they are to you. You have two weeks to remove them last week, you begged us on site.
“We will tell the FCT minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, and the commissioner of police, Sunday Babaji, that you have two weeks to remove your valuables,” he told the traders.
The aide said the minister had directed them to comb and clean all criminal hideouts in the nation’s capital, leaving no stone unturned.
Earlier, the chairman of Gwan-Gwan Traders Association Mabuchi, Salisu Rabiu, appealed for more time to pack their valuables and that the administration should provide them with an alternative place where they can do their legitimate business.
