Equipment rots as work stops on Kabi clinic
Meanwhile, the village chief further complained over lack of access to potable drinking water at the community, saying residents mostly fetch water from the pond for their domestic use, which exposed them to health risks.
The traditional ruler, who led our reporter to one of the ponds where women fetched water in the community, said the pond was their only source of water for both drinking and other domestic uses.
He said though there was a solar borehole which supplied water, it could not serve the needs of the entire residents.
“Sometimes the water get finished because of our population, which also includes Fulani people who also come to get water from the borehole and as soon as the water finishes they go to the pond,” he said.
He therefore appealed to the authorities of Kuje Area Council to provide additional boreholes in order to solve the problem of water scarcity at the community.
The village chief also said that lack of access to good road was another challenge facing residents especially farmers who always transported their crops to Kwaku market.
He said he had to mobilise farmers from some neighbouring villages to repair some bad portions of the road, before pick-up vans could come to the village to convey farm produce to the market. He appealed to the authorities of the council to grade the road and construct culverts across some streams along it to ease their hardships.
“The other issue that has been causing my people nightmares in this community are the Fulani herders who sometimes take their cows to the farm to destroy crops. I am appealing to the government to provide us a police outpost here so that issues like this can be tackled with the presence of security men on ground,” he said.
The chief added that the community needs a network mast so that his people can easily have access communication networks.
“At least, whenever there is an emergency, especially faceoff between crop and livestock farmers, we can easily communicate with the police at Kwaku so that they can rush down here to address the issues,” the traditional ruler added.
When contacted, the special adviser on media and publicity to the chairman of Kuje Area Council, Haruna Usman, told Aso Chronicle that the chairman will set up a committee which would include the village head of the community, in order to reach out to the contractor handling the project.
He said the to council was also worried over the abandonment of hospital equipment, saying that after reaching out to the contractor, the council will write the FCT Health and Human Services Secretariat to demand for the handing over of the clinic to the council.
“Actually, the present council chairman was not aware of the clinic project in the first place as nobody came from the village to complain, until now that you are telling us. But after much enquiry, it was discovered that the project was funded by Sure- P in 2014, and a committee will be set up this week to see how the contractor will be traced so that it will be handed over to the council,” he said.