The Small Business Owners Need To Provide Them With Accommodation If They Are To Be Evicted From Abuja

  The Small Business Owners Need To Provide Them With Accommodation If They Are To Be Evicted From Abuja Following the comments made by the ...

 The Small Business Owners Need To Provide Them With Accommodation If They Are To Be Evicted From Abuja

Following the comments made by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, shortly after taking the oath of office to return the city to its original map, some small business owners are asking for an investigation so that they are not thrown into the pressure of life. .

The statement of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, is to return the city to its original map, which includes confiscating the land given by the government to the owners who have not worked on it for a long time, demolishing the buildings that have been built illegally. if not, ban small businesses on the streets and so on. The situation where some people welcome his words, while others criticize his words.

After Abuja, the capital of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, was returned in 1991 from the former capital of the country, Lagos, the influx of people from different parts of the country began to be seen for work, business, trade, etc. natives of the city who have been living in it since their ancestors.

At that time, in the development of the new capital of the country, a major map was drawn up in 1979, and the implementation of development projects began, but since then the population of Abuja has continued to increase due to the increase in population. the entire population of the country, and it is predicted that they will reach 11 million by 2035.

However, experts say that later the administrations of the capital that followed in Abuja stopped the use of the map of the origin of the situation which is seen to have thrown the poor people living in the city to the outskirts of the city themselves and this has resulted in the villages irregular around the city.

It can be said that the revival of the issue of going back to the original map of the federal city of Abuja by the new Minister Nyesom Wike has left behind dust as some small business owners who come from outside the city come to corn husks, sell cards, driving a naped bicycle, etc. appeared, where some demanded that a solution be provided for them if they were to be raised from the city.

As well as politicians, prominent figures, lawyers have been urging Wike to take things slowly on what they see as the threat of collapse in Abuja, where they denounced the threat of collapse with the new minister. made on their social media pages after being sworn in on Monday, August 21.

Wike has vowed to clean up the city of Abuja and demolish all illegal buildings, no matter who they belong to, apart from the issue of banning animals, evicting small businesses on the road and so on.

An expert in urban planning and a native of Abaji area of the federal city of Abuja, TPL Abubakar Sadik Ahmad, said it was nothing new.

If you can remember, the city of Abuja had Ministers like Mobolaji Ajose-Adeogun in 1976 to 1979, John Jatau Kadiya from 1979 to 1982, to Mal. Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai from 2003 to May 2007, who is considered by experts to have worked hard to transform the city into one of the largest cities in Africa