{"id":61603,"date":"2025-02-20T10:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T10:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61603"},"modified":"2025-02-20T10:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T10:48:04","slug":"fct-scavengers-beg-wike-to-halt-evictions-vow-lawful-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/20\/fct-scavengers-beg-wike-to-halt-evictions-vow-lawful-conduct\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Scavengers Beg Wike to Halt Evictions, Vow Lawful Conduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scavengers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have appealed to FCT Minister Nyesom Wike to stop the ongoing demolition of their settlements, pledging to operate lawfully and support the administration\u2019s urban renewal efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The Forum of Patriotic Scavengers, through its media consultant, Ikenna Ndubuisi, acknowledged public concerns over vandalism but insisted that not all scavengers are criminals.<\/p>\n<p>He announced plans to issue identity cards and conduct a census of legitimate scavengers to distinguish them from lawbreakers.<\/p>\n<p>The group also pledged to work closely with security agencies, including the Police, DSS, and the Abuja Environmental Protection Board, to ensure compliance with regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Their appeal comes amid intensified efforts by the FCT Administration to clear illegal structures and sanitize the capital city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo Scavengers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have appealed to FCT Minister Nyesom Wike to stop the ongoing demolition of their settlements, pledging to operate lawfully and support the administration\u2019s urban renewal efforts. The Forum of Patriotic Scavengers, through its media consultant, Ikenna Ndubuisi, acknowledged public concerns over vandalism but insisted that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61605,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61603\/revisions\/61605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}