Hussaini explained that the road contracts have been awarded but the contractor stopped work due to “non-release of funds.”
He commended the area council, saying it was trying its best to see that the road is timely completed because of its importance to the community.
The chief said that the community needed social amenities like health centre, electricity as well as means of curtailing several environmental challenges in the community.
According to him, the population of the community, which he put in thousands, is predominantly Koro but people of other ethnic groups such as Gbari, Yoruba and Igbo can be also found there.
“The community has only one basic healthcare centre which the government has not yet commissioned along the Zuba-Gwagwalada road,” he said.
He appealed to the Federal Capital Territory Administration to complete the health project in order to assist the residents in accessing quality healthcare delivery.
A resident, Abdullahi Bello, said that the issue of erosion is a thorn in the flesh of the residents.
He narrated how houses have been washed away by erosion due to lack of good drainage system in the community.
He said that the community recently engaged the services of Dantata & Sawoe Construction Company to channel the water and reduce the effect of erosion.
Pointing to his shop destroyed by erosion few weeks ago, Bello said that the situation was worsened by the area council’s inability to complete a road construction it embarked on recently.
He said: “Three months ago, they came with their bulldozers and removed the road surfacing. After doing this, they abandoned the project to the chagrin of all of us. I tell you the road was better off the way it was before they took that action. The erosion effect has doubled since then.”
Bello urged the Gwagwalada Area Council to hasten work on the road project to curtail the environmental challenge the community is facing
