Chairman Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Hon. Christopher Zakka Maikalangu, has expressed the determination of his administration to continue to provide the dividends of democracy to AMAC residents, including potable water, road construction, rural electrification, basic health care, among others.
Speaking Wednesday in Abuja during a world press conference to mark his one year in office, Maikalangu, who was represented by the Supervisory Councillor for Special Duties, Hon. Emmanuel Inyang, said on assumption of office, he was faced with a debt profile of about N2.5 billion, but has surmounted challenges.
He said: “Today marks exactly one year when this nascent administration was inaugurated by the out gone Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Alhaji Muhammad Musa Bello. On assumption of office, we were faced with the reality of an empty treasury, inheriting a debt profile of about N2.5 billion, which impeded our vision to kick-start new projects.
“I have not in any way been distracted by those distractions; due to what I have in store. I had to be patient. We settled down for work and pursued a revolutionary transformation of the administrative machinery of the Council in the light of meeting up the demands of the people.
“They included new possibilities in the areas of road construction; primary healthcare centres; market expansion and development programmes; the renovation and construction of new primary schools; rural roads rehabilitation as well as the provision of scholarship to deserving students in the Council, among several other human needs.
“Aside from grading and rehabilitation of several feeder roads, we have constructed and laid asphalt on roads such as the Wumba Township road, Iddo-Sarki access road, construction of MONDIC Road, Gwagwa, amongst many other communities.
“We sponsored and embarked on free medical outreaches to Jikwoyi, Garki and Kurudu. It featured health education/sensitization campaigns, free testing as well as counselling with no consultation cost. In all these exercises, hundreds of citizens benefitted from the Councils show of magnanimity.”