Kwali boss commissions cattle market at Yangoji
The Chairman of Kwali Area Council, Mr. Joseph K. Shazin, on Tuesday commissioned a cattle market at Yangoji village of the council.
Shazin said the council’s decision to open the market was aimed at generating revenue.
He said it was imperative for the council to look inward to explore avenues of generating revenue, instead of depending on monthly allocations from the federal government.
He stated that the council had within the last two months created avenues through which revenue would be realised.
The chairman revealed that the council went into partnership with a private developer on Kilankwa international market and establishment of timber market.
“We are making arrangement to ensure all the necessary facilities, such as water, electricity, security and guest house are provided within the cattle market in order to boost business activities in there,” he said.
Also speaking, the chairman, Task Force on Revenue Generation of the council, Alhaji Zubairu Saba Ndatsu, noted that the establishment of the cattle market at Yangoji community would bring some relief for the council in the area of revenue generation.
“We have ascertained the viability of this market, since it is strategically located to offer opportunity to the area council,” he said. The Acting Coordinator, Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), Hajiya Safiya Umar, has said the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) is not considering demolishing abandoned or uncompleted buildings or revoking approvals given for the development of such structures.
The AMMC boss, while speaking to journalists during a press briefing, however decried the menace of uncompleted buildings in the FCT.
She said security risks attached to uncompleted buildings have become a reoccurring problem to every administration, adding, however that the authorities were considering giving owners the prerogative of completing their buildings.
“But the issue of either demolishing or revoking them, there are so many committees that have sat on this, and had made several recommendations. The council is not in a position to tell you exactly the present position since it is being worked on.
“So I cannot actually tell when they (the uncompleted buildings) would be demolished or even whether they will actually be demolished. But equity and good conscience have made the FCT Administration to reach out to the owners of these structures, through newspaper advertisement in the recent past.
“I think we are still considering giving them the prerogative of seeing whether they could come in and complete their buildings, before the powers that be decide on next line of action,” she said.