infrastructure development: Council to partner FCT department

The Chairman, Kuje Area Council of the FCT, Alhaji Abdullahi Galadima has pledged to partner with the Satellite Towns Development Department (STDD) of the FCTA to ensure rapid infrastructure development in the council.

Head of Information of the council, Mr Nimrod Kocein in a statement on Thursday in Kuje said Galadima gave the pledge when a delegation from STDD paid him a courtesy visit.

The council chairman, who commended the delegation, said that the visit was an indication that the department was prepared to deliver on its mandate.

He said the visit was the first of its kind since the inauguration of the department and expressed the council’s readiness to support the department in the area of project monitoring.

Galadima said the council administration had awarded contract for the drilling of 20 hand pump boreholes for rural communities in the 10 wards of the council.

He said 16 of the boreholes had been delivered, adding that the council had also inaugurated the construction of Kayarda by-pass in the council.

Earlier, the leader of the delegation and the Coordinator of STDD, Alhaji Tanko Yamawo told the council boss that the visit was to inspect projects embarked upon by the council.

He listed the projects as 6.5 kilometer Kuje- Gwagwalada road, Kuje -Gaube road, Kuje – Pegni road, Kuje-Kango road, Senate Staff Mass Housing as well as the Prison road.

Yamawo said the visit was also to identify the infrastructural challenges facing the council with a view to collaborating and addressing them.