Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed
has said that heads of agencies and directors in the FCT administration
cannot be trusted as they have consistently lied to him about the state
of the capital city.
The Senate Committee on the FCT had last
week lampooned the minister over the deplorable state of Abuja, saying
the city had deteriorated to its old state under him.
Addressing
journalists after an inspection tour of the city, during which he came
face-to-face with all manner of environmental degradation in the city,
including commercial motorcyclists popularly called Okada who were
operating unhindered in Area One, Garki, the minister accused the
directors and heads of agencies of feeding him lies about the state of
affairs in the city in their reports to him.
'I have seen that
all the information the directors have been giving me in the files are
lies. They told me the city is clean but it is not true. We have gone
round with you. They told me there are no street traders, but there are
street traders everywhere. They told me there are no beggars but we saw
them everywhere today. They told me there were no okada riders but in
fact, the okadas are more than the vehicles. Definitely, you can see
that what they told me is not true.'
It is good to go for
inspection and supervision, not just sitting in the office but making
sure that you go out and do on the spot assessment and find out things
for yourself,' he said.
Recalling that he had earlier in December
2013 read a riot act to the heads of agencies to sit up or be shown the
way out, the minister again warned that anyone not willing to work
should either resign or be sacked as the administration cannot continue
to allow lack of capacity by some of its directors to thwart the efforts
it was making to sanitise the city.
'Anybody who feels he cannot
capture our vision and passion should humbly resign. My patience and
that of my Minister of State is exhausted. They are under strict notice
and anyone who does not comply and work hard will be shown the way out,'
he added.
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