{"id":92714,"date":"2025-01-13T20:44:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=92714"},"modified":"2025-01-13T20:44:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:44:01","slug":"abuja-administration-bans-scavengers-from-federal-capital-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=92714","title":{"rendered":"Abuja administration bans scavengers from Federal Capital City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, has banned scavengers from operating in the territory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The Commissioner of Police in FCT, Olatunji Disu announced the ban while briefing newsmen after the FCT Security Committee Meeting in Abuja on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Mr Disu said that the scavengers were allowed to operate only on dumpsites located in the outskirts of the city and the suburbs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201cAll security agencies have been tasked with ensuring that this order is enforced, beginning from Jan. 14,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The commissioner added that the committee also banned the operation of pantaker markets for two weeks, beginning from Tuesday across the FCT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Pantaker is a market for the sales of fairly used items and scrap iron, including furniture and home appliances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">He explained that the two weeks suspension was to allow security agencies to profile the pantaker operators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">This, he said, would ensure that only legitimate operators operate in Pantakers across the FCT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">He said that the committee had concluded that everybody arrested for vandalising public infrastructure would be charged to court and tried for economic sabotage and if possible, attempted murder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">He noted that because the punishment for such offences was usually community service or fine, the offenders return to commit more crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201cThe punishment given to them is so menial that we notice that we are recycling these criminals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201cThe activities of the vandals are enough to kill residents of the FCT because when they remove manhole covers on the road, it can cause the death of people driving at night,\u201d Disu said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">According to him, anybody vandalising public infrastructure is vitalising the joint property of all residents of the FCT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201cNumbers have been given out; if you see anything, say something.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201cLet\u2019s join hands to ensure that we protect all government infrastructures.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u25cf By <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\"><b>NAN<\/b><\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_250113_213257_756.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, has banned scavengers from operating in the territory. The Commissioner of Police in FCT, Olatunji Disu announced the ban while briefing newsmen after the FCT Security Committee Meeting in Abuja on Monday. Mr Disu said that the scavengers were allowed to operate only on dumpsites located in the outskirts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":92625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5807,7],"tags":[913,2271,2121],"class_list":["post-92714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crime-and-violence","category-news","tag-abuja","tag-ban","tag-scavengers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}