Nasir Imam
7 February 2008
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) yesterday banned the sale of alcohol by Hotels situated near residential areas in Abuja.
The administration also banned the activities of commercial sex workers that parade the vicinities of hotels in search of male customers.
He said such ladies turn out to be informants to armed robbers and must be sent off Abuja streets.
While announcing the administration's decision, the Minister of State for FCT, Senator John James Akpanudoedehem said everything possible will be done to sanitize the capital city.
The minister, who was speaking at a meeting with owners of hotels in FCT, directed all hotel operators to always send proper records of their guests to security agencies.
Akpanudoedehe informed the hoteliers to ensure that intending lodgers produce for scrutiny their international passports, national identity cards and other means of identification before they are lodged in the hotel premises..
The measures according to the minister are aimed at curbing the rising wave of crime in the FCT as well as to ensure that the tourism potentials of Abuja are fully explored.
He therefore called on all the hotel owners to cooperate with the administration by furnishing government with details of every one that lodged in their hotels.
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