The Chairman, FCT Ministerial Committee on City Sanitation, Ikharo Attah has disclosed that the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, will soon
address the issue of begging on the streets of Abuja, stating that the mandate of his committee is to clear the city of anything illegal that poses threat to residents.
According to him, although the job of clearing beggars from the nation’s capital is handled by the Social Development Secretariat, they can work collectively with his committee in ensuring that the nation’s capital remains clean and safe through the removal of beggars from the streets. ‘’For people to come and line up in large numbers at traffic interchanges or traffic junctions, and some of them have children running after people’s cars, begging for money, knocking on peoples cars and all these acts infringe on other people’s privacy, and from our judgment constitute nuisance, and largely inappropriate. So we will try all we could to actually remove them.
‘’First, we gave them notice to vacate. The second one is the disturbing trend, that when we now visited them to give them the final notice, they chased our people away and almost beat them up and we had no choice but to give them about two weeks more, and thereafter, we went there.
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