Residents of Kwaita and Kwakwu communities in the Kuje Area Council, FCT, have condemned the FCT administration for the neglect of basic infrastructure in the area.
The residents expressed dissatisfaction in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kuje on Monday.
They all called on the FCT administration to come to their rescue.
A resident of the area, Mr Simon Sheyigari, said the deplorable condition of the road linking Kwaita and Kwakwu was making life difficult for commuters especially traders and farmers in the area.
According to him, the deplorable state of roads had hindered economic and social development in the area.
“This is the only road linking this community and we don’t find it easy using it, especially when it rains. I want to call on the FCT administration to come to our aid and get the road rehabilitated to facilitate development in the area,’’ he said.
A resident of Kwakwu community, Mr Manasseh Luka, said the FCT administration has over the years neglected the deplorable roads in the area and had failed to provide other basic amenities for the people.
Luka listed potable water, good roads, electricity, schools and primary health care centres as their basic and immediate needs.
He also lamented that roads linking the communities with other parts of the territory were in deplorable state and called on the government to come to their aid.
“Most of us are farmers and because of the bad state of roads, we usually find it difficult to transport our commodities and we end up selling them cheap. The most painful part of the issue is that we have been cut off from having access to electricity in the community,’’ he said.
He said residents of the communities don’t have access to potable water, adding that many of them depended on water from streams, while others get water from commercial boreholes.
A farmer in Kwaita community, Mr Turu Monday, said rehabilitation of the road would ease transportation of agriculture products to markets and enhance residents’ standard of living.
The Director, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), Mrs Zaliha’u Ahmed, said all the complaints had been duly received by the Honorable Minister of FCT, Mohammed Bello.
