Officials of the Abuja Environmental Protection Board on Saturday in Abuja raided an area where street traders had taken over all available space.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that some officials of the board stormed the popular Ladi Kwali junction, which leads to the Sheraton Hotel at Wuse Zone 4.
They removed several kiosks and make-shift shops being used by food vendors and hawkers, including those involved in the business of foreign currency exchange.
The AEPB officials sent them all parking, with strict instructions that they should restrict their activities to the garden within the area.
NAN reports that the foreign currency exchange dealers were more in the number of those who populated the area, which is popular for currency exchange activities day and night.
The food vendors and hawkers were however only there to provide the complementary services of supplying the dealers’ other needs such as food and other logistics.
AEPB’s Media Liaison Officer, Samuel Musa, told NAN however that the exercise was in line with the board’s drive towards achieving a clean and habitable FCT.
He said the task of ensure the immediate removal of people and property considered to be nuisances within the federal capital city was a continuous one.
Musa said the board had been receiving an encouraging feedback on this from FCT residents.
He said: “Modern cities are well planned and maintained for proper habitation and they do not give room for indiscriminate hawking of wares.
“This exercise is in line with our resolve to ensure that nuisances within the FCT are seriously taken care of to maintain the hygiene and serenity of the city.
“The feedback we get from Abuja residents is actually encouraging, indicating that residents are happy with our modest efforts to sanitise the city, and we will maintain the momentum.”
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