Besides, there are a number of agencies under these Seven Secretaries. The challenge now is that since August when the new Cabinet was sworn in, the FCT Minister has no functional executive body and most of the agencies have no legal heads. Main reason: as I was saying, the file the FCT Minister submitted to the office of the President since late for the appointment of the seven Secretaries to manage the Mandate Secretariats and appointment of executive heads of agencies has not been treated.
Besides, all the agencies without heads too have since been headed by civil servants who have been acting and so cannot carry out executive functions. Even the Mandate Secretariats are said to be headed by civil servants drawn mostly from the Departments of Finance and Administration of different agencies. These officers cannot function as political heads. Even if the FCT cabinet is formed tomorrow, the members have only one year and eight months to go instead of four years because of some executive inertia in the presidency.
The Director retired since April and the acting successor also retired in October Since October, FCT authorities have failed to appoint a successor. Before you ask me what my problem is even if there is no Minister for FCT, let me report to you that the FCT is a government and therefore should have a structure that can control how the Territory functions.
There was a credible report in a medium published by a group of credible northerners at the weekend that despite ban, the FCT authorities announced early this year, open grazing thrives in FCT. Civil servants are always amazed about open grazing even around the Eagle Square in the heart of the Federal Secretariat complex in Abuja.
What is worse, the two FCT Committees in National Assembly and the only Senator representing FCT, have been quiet about this executive procrastination that has crippled operations in the years-old capital. Lest we forget, as I was asking questions last night while writing this, I got a confirmed report later that the FCT Minister who hails from Adamawa state last month quietly got a confirmation of his recommendation from the same Aso Presidential Villa for a brand new FCDA Executive Secretary who hails from Adamawa, his home state.
This is another sad story about Nigeria whose leader has been battling with a crisis of cohesion. Now whose federation when all the appointments in the capital favour a section of the so-called federation? The Chairman and the Secretary of the Commission that is supposed to enforce federal character provision in the constitution hail from the North. No doubt, the Abuja that the iconic Murtala Muhammed, then Head of State, proclaimed to the nation on February 3, , ten days before he was assassinated should reflect the character of the nation.
There will be consequences for all these absurdities the morning after the departure of Buhari on May 29, The FCT Mayor should be elected as it is in most cities in the world. But who will tell the president that the FCT Minister who curiously moved to get his kinsman from Adamawa state to be Executive Secretary has no cabinet since , no thanks to presidential inertia about almost everything? By Martins Oloja. Latest Sport. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Telegram.
Scores of supporters of Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, on Saturday in Ibadan, staged a protest, calling for his unconditional release. Nine junior high school students drowned on Friday after two canoes capsized on a river in the Northern Region of Ghana, the Police confirmed on Saturday. Nigerian judiciary: Lost hope of the common man. On October 27, my faith in the Nigerian judiciary was shaken to its foundation.
That day, my high hopes that the Nigerian judiciary is the last hope of the common man was shattered but nonetheless The transportation master plan for Abuja provides for connections to the rest of the country and the world by air, road and rail transport.
The plan also made provisions for a second airport in Kwali, roughly a one-hour drive from the heart of the city. Regional roads were similarly designed in such a way as to connect to federal highways that lead to the north, east and west of the country. The Abuja Light Rail is connected with the national rail network through the three lines leading to the northern, western and eastern parts of the country. It is important to note that though Abuja has no navigable body of water, there are plans to develop a dry port, which would be linked to the closest seaports to Abuja, namely the inland waterways in Lokoja and Baru.
What prospects are there for public-private partnerships PPPs in the development of the city? BELLO: Abuja initially depended almost entirely on federal allocations to carry out its development projects. More than 40 years on, there is the feeling that the Federal Capital Territory has come of age and needs to be weaned off the federal purse.
We are therefore tasked with carrying out infrastructure and utilities provision mostly through our own efforts, yet there is an urgent need to expand infrastructure and public utilities, as the city is bursting at its seams.
According to the National Population Commission, Abuja is now the fourth-largest city in Nigeria and one of the fastest-growing cities in Africa. These factors put a tremendous strain on existing facilities. Consequently, the need to develop more districts has become imperative. To achieve this, the contribution of the private sector is paramount. The administration is, therefore, committed to PPPs to develop these new districts.
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