Adkan Estate Residents Bemoan Disruption of Gwarinpa Masterplan
The residents of Adkan Estate in Gwarimpa, Abuja have decried what they described as a disruption of the estate masterplan by developers in collusion with the authorities.
The Secretary of the estate’s board of Trustees, Mrs Chidinma Agomoh said the ongoing spate of developments at the estate was making life difficult and unbearable for the residents.
Agomoh, who spoke in the company of other officials of the estate association, including Sir Anthony Okure, Mr Agbo Patrick and Mrs Esther Tunwase, lamented the rate at which plazas were thriving in the estate.
She said the commercialisation of the estate was causing chaos as many of the plazas were built without parking spaces for vehicles, leading to traffic deterioration on Road 69, which is the only road that connects about 30 other estates in Gwarimpa.
Agomoh said despite drawing the attention of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA), Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) and Federal
Capital Development Authority (FCDA) to the infraction, where all available green spaces in the area were being converted into shopping complex and nightclubs, the authorities had failed to assuage their fears.
She also warned that Road 69 could be cut off as a result of the deterioration of the gully that has eroded and narrowed the road. She said the residents had for over six years drawn the attention of the authorities to the state of the road without any assistance.
“When that happens it is going to be a major catastrophe for us. If you are coming in from our estate right from the 3rd Avenue and coming home from work, from Chambian to this estate, you won’t do it in less than an hour and half, a journey that under normal circumstances should be like three to five minutes. You can be stuck in traffic for more than one and half hour for no other reason than the springing up of plazas, not just shops –two, three, four floors of plazas and they have no parking lot. Their customers are parking right on the road, making the road inaccessible,” Agomoh said.