The Chairman, Abuja municipal Area council (AMAC), Hon. Micah Yohanna Jiba has commended the Federal Capital Territory Authority (FCTA), for the land infrastructure swap model noting that the initiative will bring rapid development in the metropolis.??
Speaking with journalists over the weekend, Jiba said that his administration recognised the good motives behind the initative, which according to him, can open up more than 10 new districts in the FCT, fast track development and attract foreign investment.
?According to the council boss: “If given the necessary support, the initiative will benefit people living in the rural areas of the six area councils of Abuja, because of the road networks that will connect the undeveloped areas to the developed areas, thereby attracting development to those areas”
?“This initiative will go a long way in providing infrastructures such as good road network in the major communities of the FCT, electricity, portable waters, and other social amenities.”
?He opined that the FCT administration has been doing well in terms of bringing development closer to the people of FCT and that it has carried everybody along in the area of policy making.
“As the chairman of AMAC I can confirm to you that the present FCT administration has performed better than other previous administration that we have witnessed in Abuja,” he added.
?He further called on the FCT administration to pay more attention to the resettlement of the indigenous people of FCT to reduce complains from original indigenes of FCT.
?He said: “The original inhabitant of FCT has not received proper definition and proper attention which I believe the? Senator Bala Muhammed is capable of doing, and for example if you push the indigenes out of FCT, they cannot go to Kaduna, Nasarawa or Maiduguri FCT is still their home.”