The Federal Capital Territory’s Department of Development
Control on Thursday demolished about 100 shanties and a brothel at the
Apo Mechanic Village, Abuja.
The shanties were removed because the plots on which they were built
belonged to legal allottees that were preparing to develop their plots.
Speaking at the site of the demolition, the site officer, Samson
Atureta, said the exercise was carried out because the Mechanic Village
had been bastardised by the allotees, despite the prototype given to
them.
Atureta explained that the prototype given to allottees indicated
that the ground floor be used as workshop and the top floor as
residence. But he said this design was not followed.
Development Control Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Josie Mudasiru
stated that the shanties constituted a security risk, adding that the
brothel was demolished because it was not approved for the area.
Mudasiru said that the demolition which was also extended to Guzape
district, was meant to rid the area of illegal buildings and shanties,
adding that the department would soon write land allottees to complete their abandoned buildings to avoid demolition.
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