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Modibbo sets up c'ttee to enforce ban on smoking in public places 

MINISTER of the Federal Capital Territory Administration {FCTA}, Dr. Aliyu Modibbo Umar has set-up a Committee for effectively enforce the ban on smoking in public places in the Federal Capital Territory with effect from June 1, 2008.

Disclosing this in Abuja Thursday, the minister who noted that the FCT Executive Committee at its last meeting endorsed the composition for the smooth implementation of the ban, said that anti-smoking law was already in existence as an Act which the FCT Administration would conveniently exploit to sanction offenders when prosecuted at the court of law.

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