Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) has commenced a massive deployment of plants and machinery to the nooks and crannies of the area council, as part of a new initiative to link up the satellite towns with a network of roads.
Chairman, AMAC Hon. Micah Jiba, said this at the weekend while addressing newsmen in Abuja.
Jiba, who spoke while inspecting on-going work around the Jikwoyi-Karu cemetery, said the Council was not happy that many years after the areas were laid out by the authorities, many land owners had not been able to develop their plots due to the absence of basic infrastructure.
He said the Council “is presently test-running the new initiative in the Jikwoyi-Karu axis,” adding that the full programme that would cover the entire Abuja Municipal Area Council would be unveiled at a grand ceremony to be held in two weeks time.
On fears being expressed by the Jikwoyi-Karu Muslim community about alleged plans to allocate the cemetery to private individuals for residential development, the chairman said the Council had never conceived such idea.
According to him, all AMAC is doing is to provide access roads to make the satellite towns attractive to residents and also help to decongest the Abuja city-centre.
The chairman appealed to the Muslim community to cooperate with the Council in its development programmes, promising that plans were on the way to fence the cemetery and make it a befitting resting place for the departed loved ones.
