Nasir Imam
23 March 2009
In order to properly maintain Abuja's environment and preserve its aesthetics, the FCT Administration will soon hire the services of competent contractors to effectively clean the city.
The FCT Minister, Senator Muhammad Adamu Aliero, disclosed this on Sunday in Abuja while appraising the activities of the Task Force handling the "Operation Clean Abuja" initiative recently launched by his administration.
The Minister said the engagement of new contractors will be professionally packaged to address all the current challenges being faced in ensuring a clean environment in Abuja since the contract with the present crop of cleaning contractors will soon expire.
Senator Aliero stressed that the new contractors to be engaged must have on ground, equipment to be used for the job because there would be proper inspection of such equipment which would form one of the prerequisites for their engagement.
The Minister insisted that with proper and modern equipment by the cleaning contractors, the cleaning of the city will surely be done with ease and to the satisfaction of all stakeholders.
Senator Aliero lauded the efforts of the Task Force for the feat achieved within the short time of its inauguration being an intervention measure; noting that what now preoccupies the thinking of the FCT Administration is how to sustain this tempo.
According to him, the FCT Administration is already talking with volunteers who will help rid the city of beggars.
The Minister emphasised that all avenues will be explored to keep Abuja clean in tandem with the hope and aspirations of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.
He revealed that the FCT Administration is working on an integrated revenue regime for all the services being rendered to the residents of the city by the Administration.
Senator Aliero remarked that the new integrated revenue plan being worked-out will be called FCT Utility Bills as all services like water, solid and liquid waste would be charged in one bill for the convenience of the entire residents of the territory.
The Minister reiterated that all utility charges will be itemised in one bill to allow the residents plan ahead by paying their bills promptly, thereby enabling the FCT Administration to provide better services as enshrined in the SERVICOM Charter of the Federal Government.
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