The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has said that his administration is set to stop the operation of commercial tricycles, popularly known as Keke NAPEP in some areas in Abuja.

The Minister also promised that the menace of one-chance would soon be over in Nigeria’s capital, saying there will be no operation of Keke Napep in Asokoro and Maitama.

According to Wike, the FCDA would be rolling out buses and taxes very soon to solve the problem of transportation and the criminal activities of one-chance in the FCT.

“These buses and taxis will ply all the routes in Asokoro and Maitama. We are kicking out Keke Napep at least in these areas.

Some of these Keke Napep are agents of criminals,” Wike said. The former Governor of Rivers State added that “if we have the buses, people will prefer to come from their areas and come to work and go back”.

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The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has reportedly voted to renovate the national mosque and Christian centre with N1bn.

FCT Minister, Muhammed Bello who disclosed this on Thursday, June 3, while featuring at the weekly ministerial briefing organised by the Presidential Communication Team at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, also revealed that the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has started generating over N200 billion annually through its aggressive internally generated revenue (IGR) drive.

He said the FCT now rated second in terms of IGR drive, intends to beat Lagos as the highest revenue generating state in the country.

While the sum of N1 billion (N500 million each) had been set aside to renovate the National Mosque and National Christian Centre, to make them presentable tourist sites for visitors to the city of Abuja, the administration will also renovate the Federal Secretariat and National Assembly. The sitting arrangements in the two chambers at the national assembly would be changed.

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Businesses operating in Maitama district in the Federal Capital Territory have been given 7-day ultimatum to relocate their businesses to the Central Business District or risk having them sealed.

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) issued the quit notice.

The Acting Director, Department of Development Control of FCTA, Garba Kwamkur stormed the popular Gana street in Maitama on Tuesday to sensitize business operators to their original residential purposes.

He said the Department had a week ago served all the buildings illegally converted to commercial uses notifications to revert to residential purposes which they were meant for, but that they had failed to comply.

Kwamkur said they faced being sealed off unless they relocated to the Central Business District or Idu Industrial Estate as provided for in the FCT masterplan.

In a similar development, Kwamkur said over 200 hectares of land in the Federal Capital City had been encroached upon by land grabbers who had resorted to erecting unapproved structures around the Lugbe District.

He said over 150 criminals had encroached into areas meant for public facilities in the Sabon-Wuse part of the district.

He spoke to journalists after some structures were demolished. He said the demolition was part of efforts to sanitize the area in line with the FCT Administration’s pronouncement to incorporate Lugbe into the Federal Capital City proper.

“This area was planned for public facilities such as schools, markets, hospitals, and other public utilities, but land grabbers have encroached into the area and captured all the plots meant for public facilities and are developing them as housing estates thereby denying space for the necessary amenities that will be needed for the district in the future,” he said.

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