Senate Committee gives Abuja 21 days to clean up filth

The Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory on Monday flayed the six local councils in Abuja over the mounting filth across the city.

Of particular concern to the committee is the filthy state of parks and markets in Abuja.

The Chairman of the committee, Senator Dino Melaye therefore handed down a 21-day ultimatum to the councils to clean up their areas or face sanctions.

Melaye who gave the order during a meeting with chairmen of the six area councils in the FCT, said that Abuja was too dirty to be the seat of power and a capital city stressing that no nation's capital around the world was as dirty as Abuja.

His words:
“This committee is giving you three weeks to clean up the metropolis, the environmental sanitation in the FCT particularly the area councils especially AMAC is poor.

“You see heaps of rubbish on the road side, Abuja is the pride of Africa, we cannot let this continue.

“After three weeks if you don’t clean up the FCT we will clean you up: you cannot be collecting revenue from the market and the market will be very dirty.

“You go to our parks and it is an eye sore. Two weeks you won’t clean the parks and you are generating money from that park, and when they ask you will say there is no money.

“We are very serious about cleaning up the city. Within three weeks, clean up Abuja, especially the satellite towns.”

Melaye noted that the parks and markets within Abuja have remained dirty even when they generate a lot of revenue for the councils.