AMMC moves to mitigate abuse at Abuja recreational parks

WORRIED by the increase of nefarious activities within recreational parks in the nations capital city, the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) on Sunday revealed advanced plans are in place to mitigate the menace.AMMC said that it has resolved to intensify enforcement to address all infractions on approved land use especially noise pollutions and all sorts of illegal activities around parks and gardens in the Abuja.To this end, AMMC officials has commenced comprehensive tour and marking of structures within parks and gardens in the nations capital city.The AMMC team, led by its Director of Administration and Finance (DAF), Mallam Suleiman Abdurameed and other heads of departments such as Parks and Recreation, Development Control, Urban and Regional Planning, visited the busy Millennium park in Maitama, Surich Park and Covenant Park in Wuse Zone 6.The team also visited Peka Parks and Garden, Wuse Zone 3 and Unique World Guarden, Wuse Zone 5, respectively, during which abatement and removal notices were served on operators of gardens.Speaking with reporters during the exercise, Mallam Abdurameed, who is overseeing the affairs of AMMC, said the assessment and warning tour followed a directive by the FCT Minister, Mallam Muhammad Bello.He said that the FCT Administration will no longer condone the infractions.He decried increasing illegal structures and activities within approved FCT parks and gardens, as they are not in conformity with their original land use plan.According to him, this time around, the Council through its relevant departments will not only stop and remove operators of illegal activities within designated parks and gardens, but prosecute them to serve as deterrent to others.Read Also:Security beefed up around Court of Appeal, AbujaFor instance, this place is supposed to be a garden, the other part there is supposed to be a residential area . They have converted it to entertainment spot .You can see loudspeakers everywhere, booming loudspeakers and there is always music in the night depriving the residents in this area from having a good night rest and so on. So, the minister has directed that the FCT Administration will not condone this type of behaviours any longer.They had notices before that they should revert to original land use. We are just coming round now, taking the final stock of what is happening here, we are definitely not going to allow this to happen.So, we are coming round/again to remark and we are telling them (Parks operators) to revert to the original land use for which these places are meant for, he stressed.Asked about the timeframe for the removal exercise, the AMMC boss said: We are not giving any definite time. We have to come and enforce them to reverse to original land use.We have our plans, to make sure that these places are developed to their original use. And I cannot come to a place and start disclosing our strategy for somebody to pick up and start to sabotage.
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