Bello orders restoration of Nyanya market

The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has ordered the restoration  of Nyanya Market, which has been ‘illegally’ converted into residential accommodation.  The minister gave the directive when the Ministerial Taskforce on Traffic Decongestion and Environmental Sanitation along the Nyanya-Karu- Karshi road paid a courtesy call to his office in Abuja.  Malam Bello commended the […]

The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has ordered the restoration  of Nyanya Market, which has been ‘illegally’ converted into residential accommodation. 

The minister gave the directive when the Ministerial Taskforce on Traffic Decongestion and Environmental Sanitation along the Nyanya-Karu- Karshi road paid a courtesy call to his office in Abuja. 

Malam Bello commended the taskforce for what it has achieved so far, especially the reduction of gridlock on the road, improvement on sanitation, drop in crime and almost zero record of death on the road.  

The minister, however, frowned at the ugly development whereby structures in the Nyanya market meant for market stalls were converted into residential accommodation. 

He stressed that this was mainly responsible for the spill-over of illegal squatter stalls on the Nyanya interchange, rendering the road almost impassable during peak hours.

He further charged the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) and The Satellite Town Development Department to ensure that the road did not return to its dark days of gridlock and filth.

Bello, while extending the tenure of the task team by three months, charged AMMC, STDD and AMAC to work with the team and other relevant security agencies in the FCT to enforce the directive.