1.5m FCT residents to benefit from greater water project – Official

The Greater Abuja Water Supply Project will provide potable water to 50 Districts of the FCT, covering about 1.5 million residents, an official revealed.

Mohammed Sule, FCT’s Director of Information and Communication, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja.

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Sule said that the project was targeting the residents of 50 districts who were hitherto, depending on other sources of water that may not be hygienic.

“This administration’s desire to complete work on the Greater Abuja Water Supply Project to provide clean and safe drinking water to FCT residents isn’t in doubt.

“By embarking on the Greater Abuja Water Supply Project, the government intends to tackle the perennial shortage of potable water supply in some parts of the 250 square kilometres of the FCC, Abuja,” he said.

Sule added that the project would specifically supply water to about 50 estates and mass housing schemes around phases III & IV of the city.

On health, Sule said that the FCT Administration was making efforts to resuscitate the abandoned 240-bed Utako District hospital; while the Administration has introduced Automated Registration of Private Healthcare facilities.

This, he said, was to check incidences of quackery, adding, “the Zuba Cottage Hospital has been rehabilitated and upgraded to the status of a General Hospital”.

On education, the FCT spokesperson said that the major problem the nation was facing was the safety of pupils and students in some public schools. (NAN)