Reps Summon FCT Minister over infrastructure decay in Abuja.
Njideka Ozoalor
The house of Representatives has summoned the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Muhammed Bello to appear before it and address lawmakers on the infrastructural decay in the capital.
This resolutions was sequel to the adoption of a motion of urgent puplic important sponsored by Deputy Minority Leader Toby Okechukwu at resumed plenary of the House on Tuesday.
Presenting the motion, expressed grave concern that Abuja has never been as unsafe as it is today due, among others, to the influx of bandits and other criminals, lack of modern security infrastructure in the city center and the satellite towns and non- maintenance of available ones, including CCTV installations and as little as street lights.
He expressed concern over the poor city management bedeviling the FCT resulting in obvious disorderliness and widespread deteriorations as well the indiscriminate allocation of lands without a matching infrastructural development.
The Deputy minority leader said he was “concerned about the acute lack of infrastructure in the satellite towns and the resort by tax-paying citizens to self help in territory that should ordinary model rural development in Nigeria. Concerned about the allocation of lands in Green Areas in clear breach of the FCT master plan.
Also concerned about the worsening poor waste management practice in FCT, including dearth and poor manitenance of waste treatment plants. despite the minister of state, FCT’s claim if 8 billion naira annual expenditure on waste management in the FCT. Worried about the status of the Gurara water transfer project”.
Okechukwu also expressed worry about the far-reaching consequences of absence of a full complement of the FCTA’s administrative structures for about the years since the appointment of the FCT Minister, including the non – appointment of mandate secretaries, equivalents of Commissioners at state levels to form the FCT Executive council.
