Residents and other stakeholders in the FCT have called on the new minister, Nyesom Wike, to quickly restore the lost glory of the nation’s capital.
To the residents, restoring the decaying infrastructure in the nation’s capital city will be the main challenge.
Wike had yesterday shortly after assuming office warned those distorting the master plan of the FCT to expect demolition of their properties soon.
“Be you a minister or ambassador, if you know you have developed where you are not supposed to develop, your house must go down,” he said.
Mr Toyin Ajayi, a public affairs analyst, noted that virtually all the public facilities, ranging from street lights, roads, effective transportation system as well drainage system have collapsed.
He said, “Many streets in Abuja are always dark at night because the street light system has collapsed. The drainage system is bad. You will see the rot whenever it rains in the Abuja city centre, something urgent needed to be done by the incoming minister.’’
Joseph Shapayi said, “The new minister must make sure relevant agencies like Satellite Towns Development Agency are made to work. Honestly, I don’t know the work of this agency, go to the major towns in the area councils, from Bwari to Kwali, Abaji, Karshi, Kuje among others, you will doubt if you are in the FCT. They are all in a mess, so the new minister will have to kick the ball rolling immediately.
Barrister Ahmad said addressing the protracted land allocation issue requires the attention of the incoming minister.
He said there are issues of unresolved double allocation, the difficulty in getting land allocation from the FCTA through the AGIS and the high cost of land, when such allocation gets to a second party.
Mrs Ignedu Momoh, a resident, advised the incoming minister to pay attention to the Abuja Greater Water Project, which has been going on for long but without any hope of completion date.
A retired military officer, Abdullahi Ahmed, said the incoming minister of the FCT must strengthen security at communities in the councils, noting that majority of the rural dwellers could no longer go to their farms because of incessant kidnaping, rape and farmers/herders clashes.
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