By Daniel Tyokua
Land owners in AMAC Housing Estate have urged chairman of the council, Christopher Maikalangu to make provision for access roads within the Estate.
They said the access roads wiil help them have access to their plots and plan for development.
Alhaji Imran Abdullah, chairman of AMAC Estate Phase 3 Landlords’ Association, told journalists in Abuja, that construction of the roads will hasten work on the plots.
He explained that the Council will gain more in area of revenue if the Phase 3 of the Estate is developed.
They lamented that efforts made in the past to convince previous Area Council Chairmen to open up the place by provision of good roads and other facilities were not successful due to lack of political will.
AMAC Housing Estate, located on the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport road, Abuja is only estate owned by the Abuja Municipal Area Council, (AMAC ) but vast of land spreading 15, 16, 18 and 19 series, are left undeveloped due to no road to access them.
Abdullah lamented that the lackluster attitude of the management of AMAC towards the estate remained a source of concern to the residents.
He said lack of commitment on part of the owner, (AMAC) have exposed the plot owners to danger of sort as they on regular basis being threatened by the land grabbers who have invaded the Phase 3 in their droves of recent.
He said “To our surprise, most of these land grabbers have the gut to openly display land titles purportedly procured from the Federal Capital Development Authority, FCDA, for the estate land that purely belongs to the AMAC.
“They invaded us often times accompanied by some soldiers and policemen, who we know are providing them with illegal protection to harass our members whose allocation papers were signed over twenty years by relevant authorities.
“We are calling on the Honourable Chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council to come to our aid and show leadership to build access roads to prevent further threat and humiliation we are being subjected to as the original land owners.
“We also appeal to the Chairman to commence a probe into the activities of these desperate people, especially to expose the FCDA accomplices issuing these titles for land properly allocated to the genuine owners .
According to Alhaji Imran, “we want to use this occasion to inform the management of Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, that we can no longer folds out arms to see this illegality thriving , hence the ongoing “Identify your plot and develop” sensitization we have embarked among our members.
“The situation in AMAC Housing Estate is disheartening, we cannot access our plot because of road challenge and even the Phase 1 and 2, which have experienced a little of development is wearing sorry sight as almost the areas fast degenerating into slums due to lack of facilities, especial road network”, he said.
