The Federal Capital Territory Command of the Nigerian Police has announced plans to monitor all uncompleted buildings in the nation’s capital to ensure that they are not inhabited by criminals.

The FCT Police Commissioner, Wilson Inalegwu, told Channels Television that the command would work with the Development Control Unit of the Federal Capital Development Authority, FCDA, to monitor and demolish illegal structures which can be used as hideout for criminals in the capital city.

The development control is conducting an exercise to ensure that uncompleted buildings are not a threat to the nation’s capital.

Showing its seriousness, the Abuja development control unit has threatened to seal up a building on No. 4 Mambolo Street in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, because of the poor state of the structure.

The mobile court set up by the unit fined the residents and gave them an ultimatum to put the building in order.

In another part of the nation’s capital is an uncompleted building, inhabited by over 100 people and which has been left uncompleted for almost a decade. It is situated on Anthony Enahoro Street in the Utako District.

The development control unit has threatened to demolish the building and similar ones because they pose a security threat to the city.

Despite the aesthetic advantage of buildings to the nation’s capital, Abuja is littered with uncompleted buildings.

The proposed clean up exercise of uncompleted buildings would, hopefully, improve the security situation in Abuja.