The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has commended his predecessors for developing the city in accordance with the dream of its founding fathers.
Said he: “the dreams of Abuja’s founding fathers have been achieved, and what remains now, as beneficiaries of this beautiful city, is to make sure that we run it efficiently.”
The Minister spoke today when he and some key Directors went on unscheduled tour of FCT facilities within the Federal Capital City, Abuja.
“the previous FCT Administrations have done their bit to build a befitting city to this level of maturity, and therefore, we must join hands to maintain as well as improve on the bequeathed infrastructure to guarantee efficient services to the residents.”
Muhammad Bello insisted that Abuja should be a city where the residents are provided quality services that will make their life more comfortable because Abuja is the only city in Nigeria that is a creation of law.
He charged the heads of all the various Departments and Agencies under the FCT Administration to work collectively towards achieving this onerous goal.
“All of us tend to look at the issue of this our beautiful city only from the perspective of our individual department. We have lost sight of the fact that it is the collective successes of the various departments that make us to be what we are. It is this collective success that makes us to be recognized as running our city well or not. No matter how efficient the man in Urban & Regional Planning is, if the man in Public Works is not working the right way, we will not have the required benefit.”
The Minister stressed that the Administration must work to see how it could replicate in the Area Councils, the infrastructure already existing in the city centre, to make it convenient and comfortable to live anywhere within the 8,000 square kilometers Abuja.
Muhammad Bello said that henceforth, the FCT Administration will hold weekly management meeting, starting from next week, where all the heads of the Mandate Secretaries and Agencies including the FCDA, under the leadership of the Permanent Secretary will brainstorm and see how they can move the city to the next level.
The FCT Permanent Secretary, Dr. Babatope Ajakaiye and the FCDA Executive Secretary, Engr. Adamu Ismaila also participated in the unscheduled facility tour. [myad]
