Scraps’ Vendors Appeal To FCT Minister For Land Allocation

Chairman of the Association of Fairly Used Items Vendors (Panteka), Alhaji Auwal Adamu, has appealed to the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) for land allocation, which will serve as a permanent site to conduct their business.

Speaking to journalists in Damaturu, Yobe State capital, Adamu stated that the association, which is duly registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) since 2008 with over 5,000 members, is operating at a temporary site at Jabi Motor Park in Abuja.

He said it has become necessary for members of the association to have a permanent site to conduct their business, owing to their regular ejection by property owners in the FCT.

“We are appealing to the minister for a permanent site. We started our business in Wuse Market in 1987. We spent seven
years in Wuse before we were relocated to New Central Area by the then minister, Jeremiah Useni. After we spent another nine years, we were again relocated to Jabi Park in 2003,” he said.

According to him, the association was capable of generating 300 per cent revenue to the FCT in line with the ‘Renewed Hope’ agenda of the present Tinubu administration.

Adamu noted that the allocation of a permanent site to dealers of scraps would also create thousands of direct and indirect jobs among youths, thereby contributing to the administration’s efforts in ensuring a crime-free and peaceful Federal Capital Territory (FCT).