DAILY TRUST
Wednesday, June 13,2011
NEWS
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KablJsa farmers complain of fertilizers Paul, who f'l.ulted the FCT Admini5tnlion's ffidtlement p~ns for naLives. noted that the Ideal lhlng to be done Is to focus on urban RDewlll and Integr.rtion. In another develop· mmt, le5ideoll of the community have apptaled to AJ,.1AC chairman 10 provide the community with a wdl equipped and functional primary health
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lamenled that the prinluv health c.an ccn~ in the area lacks drugs u well as pason· nd and -appialtd 10 the gOftrnmenl to equip the centre. A rcsldent, who simply idenllfied herself as Madam Card. appealed to AMAC chalnnan to sink boreholes ~ the com· munity to amellonte the problbn of acuk waLt:r ShOrlage facIng the community. who faulted",. Fa Administ,.. She said the
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Paul, tiCHJ ~ resettlement plans fornatives., noted that"" id",,1 thing to be done is to focuson wban renewal and integt71tioo.
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care f;!'nlre that can adeqUal:dyc:aler for the health n«<ls of the community. A howe wlfe. Mrs Hden Sa.mud.wmplalned thaldue to such problems. pregnant women in the arcado nol usuallybcnelil from the free ante·natal services enjoyed by lhe.lr counterparts in olherparu oflhe territory. SpeakIog In the s.a.rne vein. Mrs Gloria
Another resident, Maduabuchi Augustine. c:a1Ied 00 the Fer minisler 10 make some of the palliabve buses ply the roules to Kabusa community in order 10 address the lransponation chi.1lenge facing residents. He equally 'ppc:aled for II new lransformer In the area 10 resolve Ihe problem of power outllge curtently facing them.
AMACgets new refuse dump sites or
THEo,alrIJWl Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Micah Y. lib&. at the wrdtmdsaid that the council has bet'n anoated rourdurnpingsites fnrthedisposalof refuse coUected in the city centre.. The chairman, who disclosed this 10 newsmen at the councils secretariat. said the FCT Administration bas app~ the alkKalion of the sites and ensuring thai the
councills dun. He said the council has sustained so far the monthly as wdI. as periodic cvacua·
lion of waste al saldlite towns, especially in Nyanp. Karu, Jikwoyi and some 9ilbges on the way to Orom. liba diKi~ that the council bought aboul 1,000 galvaniKd refuse bim with N 10 million, which were freely'distributed to rur.a.I, saldlile and urban dwdlen In the liIlI! two years.
He said the"l:ounciJ has been paying monthly service charges to the Abuja Environmental Protrction Board (AEPR) ror 50lid waste evacw.tion within the capital dty, adding that about NlJ million iJ; committed for such sel'Yiccdurges.
Development (ontrol demolishes houses at Kpaduma OFFICIALS of the Dqwtment ofDevdop-
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ment Control, Abuja Muni~lpal Management Coundl (AMMC) at the wedttnd demolished houses and slrudures' they te~ as illegal at Kpaduma community in GarkI wlIJd of Abu;" Among the houses d~ished was that of Bala Iy., a councillor representing Gark! ward in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC). Some residenlS said there was no nOlice gIven by development coolrol that Ihey were col1\ing to demolish houses on that
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A resident. MUSil Jibm, lamented thai he ~t fOf his father's burial ceremony and rKeh'ed a caU mid way Into the uremony 10 rc1um home because his house was demolished with his property Inside. "1hey came to demolish our houses at a time people were nol amund and this is unfair ll.!I the proper thing was to have firsl mtt the tndllional head ollhe place berore anyothrr ICtlon~ he said. Abo speaking. Councillor Bal.
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descri~ the action of the development control offidais as unjustly. He said t.hcy carried oul the demolition without infonning owners of such hou5cs. ,-If they had anything to teU us. they ahould ha~ contacted the chiefs In Garki ward and I am also a leader In the. ward but they disregarded us and ~t ahead to demolished our houses. -They are nuting us like animals but we are human beings like them. I am calling on Ihe FCT Minister, Sen. Bala Mohammed and the National Assembly 10 qukkly act on this Injustice mtted on us," he Slid. Slmon Saba. Secrewy of Kpaduma Community, Slid residents of the place ~ unfairly trnted. -We did not know when these people came to demolish our howes and many of our people are homeless," heslaled. Ue said residents of the area are already In coun ovn the mue and expected W go\'emment officials to respect Ihat (act but they went ahead demolishing hOU5CS. A devdopment control official said notices were given before they started demoUtion.