The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has said hard times await environmental offenders in the territory, saying that it had already sealed up a total of 2,491 facilities and sites.
It said those places were sealed for non-compliance with Environmental Impact Assessment/Environmental Audit (EIA/EA) regulations.
Minister of the FCT, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, said this after a recent meeting with some senior officials of the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB).
He said the FCT Resident Sanitation Forum had been resuscitated with the objectives of increasing general awareness and full participation of the residents in environmental protection programmes to rid Abuja of all environmental nuisances.
Mohammed said some of these facilities were also sealed up due to default in payment of service charges and other environmental offences between January and April 2014.
He said a new FCT Policy Guideline on Solid Waste Management was being packaged and that stakeholders would soon brainstorm on its review, preparatory to its approval by the FCT Executive Committee (Exco).
