By Samuel Chukwudi
Kubwa residents, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory have listed their demands to FCT Administration with adequate security measures as key item on the list.
They said government and other stakeholders should evolve measures that will safe them from security lapses and deplorable state of infrastructure in Kubwa extension II, relocation community.
According to them, 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.
