Residents of Gaube community in Kuje area council have called on the council chairman, Hon. Abdullahi Danladi Galadima, to make provision for basic amenities a priority on his assumption of office.
The residents in separate interviews with our correspondent said the community was fast slipping into deplorable conditions.
They urged the chairman to take community as one of his priorities in the Council and “provide the necessary amenities every community deserves.”
According to them, the community lacks potable water, power supply, quality health care services and good road network.
Mr. Mica Ayuba, an artisan, told Blueprint that “our businesses have failed because we don’t have electricity and good roads; petrol is very expensive in this village and we don’t make good profits anymore.”
“This has made life very difficult for us as family people,” he lamented.
Mr. Usman Baba, a farmer, complained of the deplorable state of the road and the difficulty farmers faced in transporting their farm produce to the market.
“Our road is not good; we find it very difficult and expensive to take our farm produce to Kuje on market days,” he said, adding that “during the rainy season, we find it very difficult to transport our goods to the town because of bad road; we want the area council to come and repair our roads, give us water and light.”
Another resident, Mrs. Gloria Jaba, a business woman, said: “Our clinic is poorly equipped, making it very difficult for women during child birth. Women don’t find it easy during child birth; we travel all the way to Kuje General Hospital because our clinic has no facilities.”
