‘Stop selling Abuja streets, do your job or be sacked’, Wike warns AMAC Chair, Education Scribe

By Omeiza Ajayi

ABUJA: Minister of the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Nyesom Wike, connected Wednesday issued stern warnings to the Chairman of the Abuja Municipal Area Council AMAC, Christopher Maikalangu and the Mandate Secretary for Education, Dr Danlami Hayyo declaring that his medication would nary longer tolerate racketeering successful thoroughfare naming oregon incompetence successful work delivery.

Speaking astatine the flag-off of engineering infrastructure for Guzape District (Cadastral Zone A09, Lots 1 and 2) and the AIT neighbourhood successful Asokoro (Cadastral Zone A04), Wike lashed retired astatine what helium described arsenic the “sale of thoroughfare names” successful Abuja by unscrupulous officials.

“You don’t conscionable aftermath up due to the fact that idiosyncratic has ₦2 cardinal and past sanction a precise important thoroughfare aft them. That is not possible.

“I person forgiven you till yesterday but from today, I won’t forgive specified acts. If radical person paid you money, amended spell and refund it. Streets indispensable beryllium named aft those who person contributed meaningfully to the improvement of the metropolis and the country. You cannot commercialize our heritage”, helium warned.

Turning his absorption to the FCT Mandate Secretary for Education, Wike directed him to nutrient a verifiable, physics grounds of each rehabilitated, ongoing and planned schools crossed the six Area Councils since August 2023, oregon suffer his job.

“I person told him, if helium doesn’t bring it, different idiosyncratic volition instrumentality his job. If I americium going to bash it alone, past determination is nary request to person a Mandate Secretary of Education. It is due to the fact that I and the Minister of State cannot bash it unsocial that we person Mandate Secretaries. Nigerians indispensable see, schoolhouse by school, assembly by council, what we person done. It is nary longer 3D job; it is cognition amusement your study card. Seeing is believing”, helium said.

The curate linked the projects to President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, insisting that the existent medication was determined to present infrastructure wherever erstwhile governments failed.

“Those who unrecorded present cognize that for years, determination were nary roads. But present that Tinubu has come, determination is road. Nobody tin accidental this medication has had nary impact,” helium declared.

Wike besides urged the contractors, Dantata and Sawoe, to present the projects connected docket and employment section youths to boost livelihoods, informing residents against frustrating operation timelines.

Executive Secretary of the Federal Capital Development Authority FCDA, Engr. Richard Yunana Dauda, said the contracts, archetypal awarded successful 2005, screen astir 24 roads totaling 9.2 kilometers with provisions for asphalt surfacing, drainage, streetlights, powerfulness and h2o proviso networks, and telecommunication ducts.

He said the task is expected to beryllium completed successful 18 months, stressing that it would “ease movement, amended information and importantly rise surviving standards successful Guzape and Asokoro.”

In her remarks, the Minister of State for the FCT, Dr Mariya Mahmoud, described the projects arsenic different wide objection of President Tinubu’s imaginativeness of making Abuja a world-class city, portion commending Wike’s “dynamic and purposeful leadership.”

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