By Joyce Remi-Babayeju
The FCT Minister Barr. Nysome Wike has said that the ongoing infrastructural projects in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, are creating employment for youths in Abuja.
Wike mentioned this on Monday in Abuja at the flag-off of the construction of Mohammed Isa Road in Asokoro district.
He said, “Look at the employment that is being created every day. One company carrying out one construction or the other. Tomorrow, we’ll be in another place where another company will be carrying out construction. And our teeming youths are all engaged in this. That is creation of jobs; that is creation of employment.”
Speaking on the tenth day of flag offs of various projects within the city and satellite towns, the FCT minister stated that without road network, without drainage, without streetlights, life in Abuja would not be comfortable.
While slamming critics of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration, Wike disclosed that some of them have approached him for the provision of one form infrastructural project in their vicinity.
“You cannot say FCT is working and Mr. President is not working. It doesn’t make sense. Through us, we carry out the directive, we carry out instruction, we carry out the vision of Mr. President,” adding that one of his visions is that FCT must compete favorably with other cities of the world.
However, he called on residents to pay their taxes for the development of every sector, noting that it has to do with the availability of resources.
“That availability of resources is for you too, to pay us what you owe us. Pay us what you owe us. Dis soup sweet, na money kill am”, he stressed.
