The NES warned that the trend poses serious environmental and public health risks.
She called on the contractors to brace up and ensure proper and efficient waste evacuation.
Ms Iortyer stated that the protest would continue until the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, addressed the workers.
Mr Braimah said the AEPB was up to date in its payment obligation to the contractors, saying, “We have paid them 100 per cent, and no contractor is being owed.”
The director of the board, Osilama Braimah, stated this during the campaign at Bmuko and Dutse Makaranta in Bwari Area Council of the FCT on Tuesday.
On Monday, the Environmental Health Officers Association of Nigeria, FCT chapter, alleged the collapse of a main sewage line in Abuja.
The experts, who spoke to journalists in separate interviews, condemned the indiscriminate dumping of wastes in drains, gutters and streets.
AEPB has cautioned Abuja residents against improper waste disposal practices threatening the integrity of the city’s sewer system.
The authorities said most of those living in the shanties were without addresses and identification and this could produce challenges regarding insecurity.
“AEPB has been given marching order by the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, to clear all shanties, illegal markets and squatter camps in the FCT,” he said.
