By Daniel Tyokua
Kubwa residents, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory have urged the government and other stakeholders to evolve measures that will safe them from security lapses and deplorable state of infrastructure in Kubwa extension II, relocation community.
They said the sorry situation in the area made life difficult for them, subjecting the entire area to harsh experiences.
The residents decried that the relocation settlement, sited on Arab Road, in Bwari Area Council of the FCT, which was mapped out by FCDA in 2003, and duly signed and commissioned to exist, is yet to have government presence.
Addressing journalists after the community’s meeting at the weekend, Vice chairman of the Residents’ Association, Mr. Francis Bobai, said there was a deadly attack on their private security guards, by suspected hoodlums that attempted to rob the community.
Bobai, said the insecurity situation was alarming, because five of their security guards were attacked last week’s Tuesday, resulting to the death of one, while four are being hospitalised.
He said: “We deemed it fit to cry out to the government to come to our assistance, as we can no longer help ourselves. We pay our taxes, and there is no presence of government within our area.
“We have lived here over 25 years, but to our greatest surprise, we have been neglected by the government. This is because we have provided all the necessary infrastructure in terms of access road, electricity supply, water supply (boreholes), in the community, no presence of hospital not even a clinic for emergency cases, no schools, no police.
“The roads are bad, and we have tried our best to fix both the drainage and roads, but it is so bad that every week we must visit the mechanic.
“We have purchased four transformers for a community with over eight hundred residents (households), it is not enough, so we are also crying out to the government to provide more transformers.
“We have written so many letters, and follow up, yet there is no solution on ground for us in terms of power supply, schools, as our children are forced to go out of the community to get basic education, and we need the presence of security, either police post or station”.
