The chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Christopher Maikalangu has said that his administration has concluded efforts towards taking development to rural communities in the council.
Maikalangu also assured residents that the first quarter of 2023 would be celebrated in project delivery and implementation and that the new cashless revenue transaction policy is fully on course and is expected to pay off by the first quarter of 2023.
The AMAC boss who made this known yesterday called on the ministers of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to embark on a tour of rural villages for him to understand the deprivations and retardation experienced daily by the grassroots people.
“We have collated their needs assessment, and built them into the budget awaiting appropriate action. As this administration is determined to uplift the living standards of the common man through a concerted effort of implementing our budget, the people’s budget, 2023.
“We also hope that in the coming year, allocations from the Federation and remittances from the Federal Capital Territory Administration especially, FCT internal revenue service, would be done timely.
“While we remain committed to exploring the instrumentality of entrenching good and transparent governance, we have begun the process of re-engineering the mechanism of strengthening the Council’s Internally Generated Revenue.
“Part of our good governance model is our resolve to justify the collection of every single Kobo earned, by providing public infrastructure within the municipality as well as the highly disadvantaged rural areas,” he said.
He said the administration’s efforts at repositioning the council for better service delivery are yielding dividends, as council staff have become more alive to their responsibilities and largely keyed into the public service reform agenda of the federal government under President Muhammadu Buhari.
