Residents of Mpape in Bwari area council of Abuja woke up this morning to a very shocking and sad news of eviction and demolition notice at the same time in the popular mpape market. The street traders and shop owners in the area alleged that they weren’t given any notice before today, they came to the market to conduct their business as usual and they were greeted with the presence of caterpillars and bulldozers stationed along the abattoir road of the market with heavily armed soldiers. They went shop by shop to pass the eviction notice giving them just 12 hours to vacate the premises or risk being pulled down by force without an alternative shop or market to go, just 20 minutes after the notice the bulldozer started work on some of the alleged illegal structures along the market road.
A copy of the eviction notice was made available to the crew of elofusim.com which reads that the notice was given on 9th feb 2016 by 10:44am
We are yet to speak with the environmental health officer whose signature is on the eviction notice as at the time of filling this report.
