The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello, made this known when he led the management team of the administration, political leaders, and some traditional rulers to inspect various developments on the road axis on Friday in Abuja.
He noted that while residents were encouraged to engage in legitimate economic activities to mitigate poverty and contribute to nation-building, the administration would not allow such in any unauthorised places.Bello expressed dissatisfaction that communities on the road fringes, beginning from the City Gate to Bill Clinton Drive, were defacing the environment and not complying with extant regulations.
He ordered the Abuja Environmental Protection Board to sensitise residents and farmers on the need not to plant any crops along the road axis to reduce their burden of loss.The minister directed the immediate removal of all illegal structures, markets and motor parks on the road fringes. Earlier, the Chairman, Abuja Municipal Area Council , Alhaji Abdullahi Candido, assured the minister that the council would support the administration in the exercise.