{"id":173475,"date":"2025-08-11T16:50:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/fcta-clears-utc-dark-spot-demolishes-shanties-reduces-crime"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:55:57","slug":"fcta-clears-utc-dark-spot-demolishes-shanties-reduces-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fcta-clears-utc-dark-spot-demolishes-shanties-reduces-crime","title":{"rendered":"FCTA Clears UTC Dark Spot Demolishes Shanties Reduces Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has carried out a large-scale clearance operation at the popular UTC Complex and its surrounding areas in Abuja, dismantling refuse dumps, illegal shanties, and other structures identified as hideouts for criminal elements.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the exercise, Director of Development Control, TPL Mukhtar Galadima, said the operation was part of an ongoing citywide sanitation and security initiative mandated by the FCT Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the exercise began with the removal of a dumpsite before moving into the main UTC area, where suspected hoodlums had been operating.<\/p>\n<p>According to Galadima, the cleared land\u2014situated within the transit way corridor of the Abuja Master Plan\u2014will be fenced off to prevent future encroachment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis area has not yet been developed, but it is being maintained and protected against any instance of land grabbing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing recent social media claims about the demolition of Panorama Garden in Zone 3, Galadima clarified that the park was not destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>He said notices of clearance were served as far back as October 2023, with follow-ups in 2024 and February 2025. \u201cThe playground, gym, lounge, and all other park facilities are still intact. Only makeshift structures and scavengers\u2019 shanties were removed,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The FCTA\u2019s Director of Security, represented by Dr. Peter Olumuji, said the clearance was a targeted effort to dismantle criminal hubs across the city.<\/p>\n<p>He reported a marked drop in crime in cleared areas over the past week, citing statistics from the FCT Police Command.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince we started this operation one week ago, crime rates within the cleared locations have reduced drastically,\u201d Olumuji noted, adding that several machetes used in attacks were recovered.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed that suspects arrested during the operation are being profiled for prosecution and that \u201cOperation Sweep Abuja\u201d is actively tracking displaced criminals in other parts of the capital.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has carried out a large-scale clearance operation at the popular UTC Complex and its surrounding areas in Abuja, dismantling refuse dumps, illegal shanties, and other structures identified as hideouts for criminal elements. Speaking during the exercise, Director of Development Control, TPL Mukhtar Galadima, said the operation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":173474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[16421,1254,254],"class_list":["post-173475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-barr-nyesom-wike","tag-fcta","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FCTA Clears UTC Dark Spot Demolishes Shanties Reduces Crime - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has carried out a large-scale clearance operation at the popular UTC ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fcta-clears-utc-dark-spot-demolishes-shanties-reduces-crime\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FCTA Clears UTC Dark Spot Demolishes Shanties Reduces Crime\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has carried out a large-scale clearance operation at the popular UTC ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fcta-clears-utc-dark-spot-demolishes-shanties-reduces-crime\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-11T15:50:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-11T16:55:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754918910.931762.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fcta-clears-utc-dark-spot-demolishes-shanties-reduces-crime#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fcta-clears-utc-dark-spot-demolishes-shanties-reduces-crime\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"FCTA Clears UTC Dark Spot Demolishes Shanties Reduces Crime\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-11T15:50:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-11T16:55:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fcta-clears-utc-dark-spot-demolishes-shanties-reduces-crime\"},\"wordCount\":324,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fcta-clears-utc-dark-spot-demolishes-shanties-reduces-crime#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754918910.931762.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Barr. 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