RESIDENT TO PAY FOR INFRASTRUCTURE IN ABUJA, NIGERIA

Nigeria’s FCT resident to pay for infrastructure after minister of FCT declare government can no longer continue funding it.

The infrastructural development in the country capital in abuja, Nigeria is expected to stop after the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Malam Bello Muhammad said that residents of the territory may have to pay for infrastructure as government could no longer continue to fund it.

An inspection tour of ongoing road projects in FCT  was carried out on Tuesday, 28 November 2017 by the minister and it was found out that tremendous amounts are needed for the provision of infrastructure in many of the districts of the FCT.

The report found out that in the past it was possible to develop, but the reality now is that to develop each plot now requires tremendous amount of resources because infrastructure had not matched the level of development, adding that this had to be so because government could no longer fund infrastructure, while allocating plot for free.

According to him; ”I think it is just a matter of time, we will have no option but to ensure that every plot has to pay for itself,”

He stated that, ” If you look at it on a plot to plot basis the cost of infrastructure for a plot is so high and if you look at what people pay to government it is so negligible.”