Karmo Demolition To Resolve Traffic Challenges, Security – Director

By: Wisdom Acka

The massive demolition of illegal structures on the shoulders of Kado-Karmo-Gwagwa road was necessary to tackle the perennial traffic bottlenecks along the route.

Accordingly, it would also go a long way towards reducing security challenges in that axis.

The FCT Director, Department of Development Control, Tpl. Muktar Galadima, who led the operation told newsmen that the exercise became necessary to ensure seemless movement and tackle insecurity in the axis.

Galadima, who was represented by an Assistant Director in the Department, Garba Jibrin, said: “What we are trying to do is opening the road corridor for Karmo -Deidei road, which has been experiencing congestion.

His words: “There has been gridlock on this road which has been a big problem for motorists and Abuja residents along that axis.”

“The FCT Minister, therefore, ordered for the opening of the road corridor and to ensure that all the bottlenecks along the road are cleared and part of it is the informal commercial activities,” he said.

Galadima said that there is a designated market waiting for occupation by traders in this area, and wondered why they were reluctant to move there.

‘We have already told them that they should move away from the road corridor and move into the new market space that have been provided for them,” the Director emphasized.

Reacting to allegations by some of the victims that they were not notified, Galadima refuted.