Abuja is too dirty, Senategives cleanup order

The Senate has frowned at the
dirtiness of parks and markets in the
Federal Capital Territory
– It stated that no capital city in the
country is as dirty as Abuja
– Its committee of the Federal Capital
Territory gives the six council chairmen
12-day to clean up or be sanctioned
The Senate has given area councils in the
Federal Capital Territory 21-day to clean up
markets, parks and the entire FCT or face
sanction.
The directive was handed down by Dino
Melaye, the chairman of the Senate
committee on FCT, when the committee
met with the chairmen of the six area
councils in the territory.
Senate orders council chairmen to cleanup
Abuja or face sanction
He said that Abuja was too dirty to be the
seat of power and capital of Nigeria, stating
that no capital city around the world was as
dirty as Abuja, News Agency of Nigeria
reports.Melaye said: "This committee is giving you
three weeks to clean up the metropolis; the
environmental sanitation in the FCT, the
area councils especially AMAC is poor.
"You see heaps of rubbish on the road side;
Abuja is the pride of Africa, we cannot let
this continue.
"After three weeks, if you don't clean up
the FCT, we will clean you up: you cannot
be collecting revenue from the market and
the market will be very dirty.
"You go to our parks and it is an eyesore;
two weeks you won't clean the parks and
you are generating money from that park
and when they ask, you will say there is no
money.
"We are very serious about cleaning up the
city within three weeks, clean up Abuja,
especially the satellite towns ."
He wondered why a lot of money is being
generated from the market yet the place
remained dirty.
The lawmaker called on the council's bosses
to give account of the revenue collected
from markets and parks and how it was
being utilized.He pointed that his committee will revisit
the councils in a later date for on spot
verification of exact fund generate daily.
Melaye concluded by saying: "I am going to
sit down with you from morning till closing
time in Jabi Park; I am going to personally
sign all the tickets that would be issued that
day.
"I want to see what you are generating
from what you have in your books; the era
of personalising our commonwealth is over.
"So if you have been doing it wrongly, then
you must repent and right the wrongs of
the past ."