Essential Ndubuisi
By Daniel Ezeigwe
Development control officers from the Awka Capital Territory Development Authority, ACTDA, led by the Managing Director of the agency, Venerable Amaechi Okwuosa, have removed shanties and dislodged roadside traders doing businesses on unauthorized positions in Awka, Anambra State’s capital city.
The operation is a method that has been adopted by the agency to regularly check the proliferation of shanties and roadside businesses across the state capital.
The agency also mraked buildings sited on authorized positions for demolition while households and traders whose surroundings have overgrown grass were directed to clean up their environment or risk sanctions.
Posters defacing major surfaces across the city were also removed.
Commenting on the exercise, the Managing Director of ACTDA, Venerable Okwuosa said that the agency is stopping at nothing in achieving its set target of making Awka a prestine twnety-first century city in line with Governor Obiano’s developmental vision.
He said that the exercise which is continuing for the next fourteen days is a regular schedule to see that both those erecting structures on unapproved areas and those trading on unauthorized positions are made to desist.
The ACTDA boss also noted that pedestrians who fail to use the pedestrian bridge in the city would be nabbed and penalized.
