Akinjide Tasks FCT Area Councils On Basic Amenities




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Akinjide Tasks FCT Area Councils On Basic Amenities






Olajumoke Akinjide

Akinjide Tasks FCT Area Councils On Basic Amenities


— May 20, 2014

The Minister of State, FCT, Ms Olajumoke Akinjide, has said that area councils in the FCT


have the capacity to meet the people’s yearnings for functional health centres, portable water better roads and sundry.


Akinjide said this on Tuesday in Abuja while inaugurating various projects executed by the Abuja Municipal Council Administration (AMAC).


The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the projects include a health centre in Waru Apo; 1.5km road and borehole projects in Apo.


Other projects are two blocks of teachers’ quarters in Government Secondary School, Tudun-Wada, Wuse District and donation of 10 vehicles to the AMAC police command.


Akinjide commended the chairman and council members for their commitment towards the provision of infrastructure, social amenities to the people and the council’s investment in security.


“ I believe strongly that we have the capacity to meet the people’s yearnings for functional health centres, portable water, better roads and sundry.


“The council can also provide entrepreneurship development programmes which would help to empower our youth and women, ’’ she said.


Akinjide reiterated the minister’s commitments to ensure security, law and order in the territory.


She urged the leadership of AMAC not to rest on its oars but to continue to work to alleviate the sufferings of the people.


She called for more empowerment programmes under which fresh graduates, schools leavers and women could be trained and assisted with the needed capital.


Earlier, Micha Jiba, AMAC Chairman, said his administration would ensure all projects embarked upon were completed before the end of his tenure.


He said the FCT administration would focus on education, electrification, primary healthcare development, water supply, rural road, security and sanitation. (NAN)








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