The Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory, has give the Area
\nCouncils 21 days to clean up parks, markets and the entire FCT or face
\nsanction.<\/p>\n
The Chairman of the Committee, Sen. Dino Melaye (APC Kogi West), gave the
\ndirective when the committee met with the chairmen of the six area
\ncouncils in the territory.<\/p>\n
Melaye said that the FCT was too dirty to be the seat of power and a
\ncapital city, stressing that no state capital around the world was as
\ndirty as the FCT.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis committee is giving you three weeks to clean up the metropolis; the
\nenvironmental sanitation in the FCT, the area councils especially AMAC is
\npoor.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou see heaps of rubbish on the road side; Abuja is the pride of Africa,
\nwe cannot let this continue.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter three weeks, if you don\u2019t clean up the FCT, we will clean you up:
\nyou cannot be collecting revenue from the market and the market will be
\nvery dirty.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou go to our parks and it is an eye sore; two weeks you won\u2019t clean the
\nparks and you are generating money from that park and when they ask, you
\nwill say there is no money.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are very serious about cleaning up the city within three weeks<\/span><\/span>, clean Melaye queried why a lot of money was being generated from markets and He urged the chairmen to provide proper account of revenues generated from Melaye said that the committee led by him, would pick a day when it would \u201cI am going to sit down with you from morning till closing time in Jabi \u201cI want to see what you are generating from what you have in your books; \u201cSo if you have been doing it wrongly, then you must repent and right the He called on the area council chairmen to go and prepare for the visit of The Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory, has give the Area Councils 21 days to clean up parks, markets and the entire FCT or face sanction. The Chairman of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nup Abuja, especially the satellite towns,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\nparks and yet they remained dirty.<\/p>\n
\nmarkets and parks and how they had been utilised over time.<\/p>\n
\nspend the whole day with the area councils to ascertain exactly how much
\nthey were generating daily.<\/p>\n
\nPark; I am going to personally sign all the tickets that would be issued
\nthat day.<\/p>\n
\nthe era of personalising our common wealth is over.<\/p>\n
\nwrongs of the past,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\nthe committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"