Infrastructure: FCTA to complete access road to institutional district

By Stanley Onyekwere

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has assured that it will complete access roads to the institution and Research District, Jabi, Abuja, where some of the major academic and research institutions in the nation’s capital are located.

This was disclosed by FCT Minister, Barrister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike when he led the FCT Minister of State Dr. Mariya Mahmoud and heads and officers of relevant agencies of the FCTA on inspection of projects in Abuja, the nation’s capital city , on Monday

Wike assured that the access road to the Institution and Research District, where very notable institutions including the EFCC Corporate Headquarters, the Body of Benchers Building, Baze University, Federal Medical Centre, Institute of Human Virology amongst others are located would soon be completed.

“We’ve been able to invite the contractor to see us tomorrow so that we will be able to complete that road, which is very, very important; important in the sense that headquarters of the EFCC is there, the Body of Benchers building is also there”, Wike was quoted in a statement from Director of Press, (Office of the FCT Minister), Anthony Ogunleye.

Furthermore, the FCT Minister visited the Kabusa Junction along the Apo Mechanic village, where some shanties were recently cleared by the FCT Development Control Department.

While commending the department for removing the shanties, the Minister said perimeter fencing would be introduced in the area to prevent miscreants from returning to the cleared portion.

He reiterated that the FCT Minister, while stressing that the FCT Administration will not allow shanties to take over the city.

“Development Control has done well by making sure that those shanties are destroyed.

“Having been destroyed, we are going to put fence in the place so that all these miscreants will not go back there to mess up all what we have done”, he stressed.