Abuja Community Seeks FCTA’s Intervention On Insecurity, Bad Roads

Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Kubwa extension II and relocation community have appealed to the FCT administration and other relevant authorities to curb insecurity and other developmental issues faced by them.

The residents urged the FCTA to provide them with functional police posts or stations, motorable roads, schools, hospitals, electricity supply and potable water supply in the community, having about one thousand households.

They decried that the relocation settlement, sited on Arab road, in Bwari area council of the FCT, which was mapped out by FCDA in 2003, and duly signed and commissioned to exist, is yet to have government presence.

The vice chairman of Kubwa extension II, relocation residents association, Francis Bobai spoke to newsmen at the end of the community’s emergency meeting, at the weekend, in the aftermath of a deadly attack on their private security guards by suspected hoodlums that attempted to rob the community.

Bobai said the insecurity situation is becoming alarming, because five of their security guards were attacked last week’s Tuesday, resulting in the death of one, while four are hospitalised.

“We deemed fit to cry out to the government to come to our assistance, as we can no longer help ourselves. We pay our taxes, and there is no presence of government within our locality.

“We have lived here for over 25 years, but to our greatest surprise, we have been neglected by the government. This is because we have provided all the necessary infrastructure in terms of the access road, electricity supply, water supply through boreholes, in the community, no presence of hospitals, not even a clinic for emergency cases, no schools and no police.

“The roads are bad, and we have tried our best to fix both the drainage and roads, but it is so bad that every week we must visit the mechanic. We have purchased four transformers for a community with over 800 households, but it is not enough, so we are also crying out to the government to provide more transformers.

“We have written so many letters, and follow up, yet there is no solution on the ground for us in terms of power supply, schools, as our children are forced to go out of the community to get basic education, and we need the presence of security, either police post or station,” he said.