Saturday February 15, 2025 | TheNewsDESK
By Our REPORTER
Few days ago, officials of the Uyo Capital City Development Authority (UCCDA), embarked on the demolision of illegal structures along major roads and designated locations in Uyo urban.
The exercise took the demolision team to the abandoned Nung Oku Motor Park, where Hausa scrap dealers had turned the facility to an illegal dump site and place of residence.
They had set up shanties, enclosed the mobile telecommunication facility, belonging to one of the service providers in the state.
After the demolision of the shanties, it was discovered that the facility had been completely vandalized by hoodlums.
It was observed that all the cables and accessories attached to the facility had been removed by vandals, leaving the mass bare.
A market woman at Nung Oku Market, located near the motor park, Mrs Ikwo Ekpenyong, who spoke with the media, said she had been in the market for a long time and had seen that the network facility was intact until the “Aboks” took over the area for scrap dump site.
She alleged that the Hausa scrap dealers were responsible for the destruction of the facility for condemned iron, stressing that enclosing the facility with shanties was a deliberate act to hid within to vandalize the mass.
Ekpenyong disclosed that apart from vandalizing the telecommunication facility, condemned iron scavengers had constituted themselves into gang of thieves who have removed nearly all manhole coverings and protective wires along the newly constructed Ring Road 3.
She stated that the abandoned motor park now serves as den of thieves who have had stolen household items from the community sold to them.
