The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has issued a warning against selling rams anywhere other than the permitted locations in the Federal Capital City.
While inspecting the designated places on Thursday in Abuja, Comrade Ikharo Attah, the Senior Special Assistant to the FCT Minister on Monitoring, Inspection, and Enforcement issued the warning.
Attah said the administration would not permit anyone to sell rams all around the city.
He warned that anyone found selling rams in prohibited places will have their rams seized and face legal action.
He claims that when that happens, the administration will go before the judge and ask for a forfeiture order, when that is granted the ram will be taken to an orphanage, less privileged homes and prison.
According to him: “The position of the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has remained the same in the last three years and even tougher this year.
” The minister said there is nothing wrong in bringing rams for sales in Abuja during this global widely recognised festivity.
“But what the minister found inappropriate is and kept telling every one of us is that we should not allow selling of rams in none designated areas, particularly in the city centre.
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” Except at spot that is already earmarked for such purposes like the abattoirs, ram market at Dei-Dei, Kugbo ram market and some other few ram markets.
“But outside the designated areas it will not be allowed by the authorities,” he said.
Attah hinted that the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) headed by Mr Osi Braimah, had set up a committee which has been up and doing.
He explained that the committee had been reinvigorated to check the sales of ram and warned persons not to sell ram in areas not designated.
He, however, advised ram sellers to contact AEPB for proper guidance on how to go about selling the Rama without violating the law.
