{"id":72691,"date":"2025-08-11T05:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72691"},"modified":"2025-08-11T05:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:59:21","slug":"fcta-continues-raids-on-criminal-hideouts-reaffirms-safety-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/11\/fcta-continues-raids-on-criminal-hideouts-reaffirms-safety-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"FCTA Continues Raids on Criminal Hideouts, Reaffirms Safety in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has vowed to sustain its city-wide clearance of shanties and suspected criminal hideouts, stressing that military service offers no immunity to those found aiding or accommodating criminal elements.<\/p>\n<p>The warning came after the demolition of a section of the Jazz and Blues Entertainment venue at Panorama Recreational Park in Wuse Zone 3, identified through intelligence as part of an organized criminal network.<\/p>\n<p>The operation formed part of the ongoing cleanup to enhance public safety and dismantle hideouts used by criminals to evade law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>FCT Minister\u2019s Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, said the clearance was based on credible security reports and not targeted at any individual or business.<\/p>\n<p>Security agencies, including the NDLEA and DSS, had flagged locations such as the Banana Green Belt from the National Mosque to Wuse Zones 1 and 3, and the Area 10 corridor, as hotspots for criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>Olayinka disclosed that multiple contravention notices were served to the park\u2019s management, beginning in February 2024 and followed by further warnings in October 2024, March 2025, and June 2025, before a final eviction order was issued on July 25, 2025. All were ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Key facilities at the park, including the football field, gymnasium, and viewing platforms, were left untouched and remain open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>While acknowledging the military background of Air Commodore Balogun, reportedly linked to the premises, the FCTA maintained that no one is above the law.<\/p>\n<p>The administration said the clearance exercise will continue in other parts of Abuja in the coming weeks as part of its commitment to keeping the city safe and secure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has vowed to sustain its city-wide clearance of shanties and suspected criminal hideouts, stressing that military service offers no immunity to those found aiding or accommodating criminal elements. The warning came after the demolition of a section of the Jazz and Blues Entertainment venue at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-72691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72691","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=72691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72693,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72691\/revisions\/72693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}