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Senate orders Minister to throw out prostitutes, urchins from FCT
Senators on Tuesday, ordered the Minister of FCT to immediately commence the evacuation of prostitutes, street beggars and other criminal elements in the city to their respective states of origin.
Addressing newsmen on Thursday, chairman of the Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Senator Dino Melaye, alongside three other members, said activities of the street urchins were posing serious security threats to the peace of the city.
Melaye said: “Last week, we summoned the Commissioner of Police FCT and the commandant of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). We did this because as a Senate, we are appalled with the security situation in Abuja.
“We are also very uncomfortable with the number of hoodlums on our streets in Abuja. We have beggars, destitutes, commercial sex workers spread across every nook and cranny of the city and we have given a marching order to the Commissioner of Police and the Commandment of NSCDC.
“We have also instructed the FCT Administration to provide logistics for the immediate evacuation of all dissidents, beggars, including those little boys who claim they are helping you to clean your glass by so doing they are adding additional dents to your cars.”
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Melaye also told newsmen that the committee has secured an agreement with some commercial banks and other corporate organizations in the territory to beautify the city.
He said the new agreement will not incur any additional cost to the government. He said it was part of the corporate social responsibility of the organizations.
He said: “Since we are in recession, we discovered that we must think outside the box. Corporate organizations in Abuja have decided and we have 18 of them that have accepted to work with us in making the city beautiful. There are 15 banks also.
“In fact, some of the companies that are into land swap business in Abuja have agreed to also join in this corporate social responsibility to ensure that the federal capital city is clean.”
By Ehisuan Odia….
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Balarabe musa
February 24, 2017 at 8:01 am
I support Dino on this matter because a whole country capital should be free from all forms of nuisance. But they should make good provisions for the people as well.
JOHNSON PETER
February 24, 2017 at 8:53 am
Dino is a mad dog but he is being sensible here. Abuja should not be an harbour of prostitutes and beggers. They should be flushed out.
seyi jelili
February 24, 2017 at 12:48 pm
flushed out to where? or to what part of the country? if Dino provides jobs for those sluts and urchins, do you think they will refute to work? it is high time we started thinking beyond the box. life is mere hard on people, you are talking about adorning a city , see forget that, The government has failed in the area of welfarism for its citizens. Dino is my state man and as you see him that way, he worths nothing less than #20bn. I know what I am talking about, if he can be selfless and make life bearable for the abuja dwellers as the chairman committee of FCT, then people will desist from constituting nuisance as he said.
Margret Dickson
February 24, 2017 at 10:45 am
The federal government should provide jobs for those making a living from the streets can have alternatives to fall onto. The federal government cannot just clear them off the street without putting ‘hope’ in place for them.
Animashaun Ayodeji
February 24, 2017 at 10:50 am
Wow, I’m surprised these people are more concerned about the beauty of FCT than the well being of the citizens who voted them into power, this is totally crazy. People turn into hoodlums when they have nothing to do, when they have no hope and have no wan to bend on. The federal government should rehabilitate these people, else they will return to the street to destroy all beatifications
Roland Uchendu Pele
February 24, 2017 at 12:52 pm
“We are also very uncomfortable with the number of hoodlums on our streets in Abuja.” The Police are uncomfortable – that’s a first! The last time I checked, we have them among the hoodlums who terrorize innocent citizens on the streets.