Phone repairers cry out as Benue Agency embarks on massive demolition

It was a bittersweet ambiance successful Makurdi municipality connected Thursday, arsenic telephone repairers wept profusely implicit a amazed demolition of their shops by the Benue State Urban Development Board (BNUDB) crossed Makurdi town.

DAILY POST reports that the areas affected included Katsina-Ala, Vandeikya streets and Tito successful Makurdi town.

While justifying their action, a subordinate of the Demolition team, Mr Ajai Bernard said isolated from giving Makurdi a much beauteous look befitting of a State Capital, the demolition besides became indispensable due to the fact that of the information posed by the containers built adjacent to electrical transformers, blockage of residential houses, summation successful transgression complaint and instauration of unnecessary postulation gridlock astir the affected areas.

Bernard added that the owners of the amerciable shops were warned anterior to the latest demolition, reiterating the authorities government’s program to get escaped of each amerciable structures successful Makurdi earlier the extremity of the year.

Speaking connected behalf of the affected GSM Repairers, Mr Patrick Akor lamented the unannounced demolition, saying it had sent galore youths retired of jobs which could origin much crimes.

It could beryllium recalled that the Benue State Urban Development Board nether the enactment of its Acting General Manager, Mr Ternongo Mede, began the demolition of amerciable structures successful the authorities superior successful November 2023, with partial demolition of immoderate structures on Katsina-Ala street.

It stated the bastardization of the quality of the authorities superior and the nearness of the shops to electrical transformers and different unsafe instrumentality arsenic the reasons.