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Residents of Kubwa in Bwari area council have lamented the degree of filth in the environment and have appealed to the FCT Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, to improve efforts towards sanitsing the city and its environs.
One of the residents, who spoke with LEADERSHIP, Engr. Chris Okoh, said the call for complete sanitisation of the FCT was borne out of the need to see the FCT as the most beautiful city in Africa as proposed by past FCT administrations.
Okoh, who is the proprietor of Royal Foundation International School Kubwa, who spoke during the school’s graduation ceremony, said the FCT despite the proclamation that FCT was the fastest growing and most beautiful city in Africa, this was far from the truth, considering the unkempt nature of satellite towns in the city.
He noted that the health and safety of residents ought to be the paramount desire of the FCT minister in his bid to meet the demands of residents.
?“My advice to the FCT Minister is for him to insist on doing what is right, although it is not easy to do what is right, but he should not follow the few who can be bought over by the elites at the detriment of the peace and the success of the future, because there is need to sanitize the capital city, not by demolition, but by looking at the complete cleanliness of satellite towns around the FCT to ensure the beauty of the city is complete, not only in the city centre,” he said.
A special guest at the occasion, Mrs. Gladys Ohia, said the call to sanitise the FCT was very necessary as most areas councils of the capital city were getting worse by the day, saying that if care is not taken the beauty of the city would be a thing of the past, adding that the beauty of any major city or state is judged by the beauty of the little towns around it.
“It is not right to say that most parts of the satellite towns mostly along the roads are becoming a dumping site for refuse, for example, when you are driving along the Kubwa Expressway to town, you will notice refuse dump sites by the road, which is not supposed to be for a developed capital city. The Minister of FCT should seriously work on sanitising the city to bring out the true beauty,” she said.