His sounded the warning at a workshop at the Dhaka University’s Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Building on Wednesday.
Huq had faced tough protests from truck owners and workers while trying to clear the illegal occupiers of the Farmgate-Karwan Bazar road from Tejgaon’s Saat Rasta in November last year.
“Evicting the occupiers from footpaths is a very tough job. But all illegal occupiers of all footpaths in Dhaka will be evicted,” the mayor asserted.
“I’ve asked my people to plead with them (occupiers) for three days. If that doesn’t work, I asked them to go with bulldozers and get down to business at once.”
“We don’t care. Hopefully, you will see that we will take out these establishments.”
Addressing the workshop’s chief guest, Housing and Public Works Minister Mosharraf Hossain, Huq said, “I was telling the minister about this just now. But I can’t say in public who are illegally occupying the footpaths.”
The mayor said Dhaka would be a ‘different city’ when he finishes his term three years and seven months from now.
