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.
Correspondent, Daniel Ezeigwe reports that the exercise began at each sides of Arroma Junction, to Regina Ceali axis, UNIZIK Temp Site, Kwata and Amawbia Junctions.
The agency also marked buildings sited on unauthorized positions for demolition while households and traders whose surroundings have overgrown grasses 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 pristine twenty-first century city in line with Governor Willie 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 for good.
The ACTDA boss also noted that pedestrians who fail to use the pedestrian bridge in the city would be nabbed and penalized.
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