FCT MINISTER BEGS NDIGBO TO SUPPORT BUHARI ADMINISTRATION

As Igbos ask government for appointments

By Henry Umoru

ABUJA- MINISTER of the Federal Capital Territory

Administration, FCTA, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello said

that if President Muhammadu Buhari must succeed in

taking the country to greater heights, he would require the

support and cooperation of the Igbos in the Federal Capital

Territory and the nation at large.

Speaking Wednesday in Abuja when a delegation of Igbo

Community resident in the Federal Capital Territory paid

him a visit in his office, the FCTA Minister who urged the

Igbo people resident in the Federal Capital Territory to

continue to support the government of President Buhari,

stressed that the continued support from all Nigerians

irrespective of ethnic, political or religious inclinations was

necessary to enable the President achieve his set goals.

Meanwhile, the Igbos who were led on the visit by the Eze

Ndigbo of Abuja, Eze Ibe Nwosu appealed to the Minister

to include the Igbo people resident in Abuja in Board

appointments and other political appointments to give

them what he termed, a sense of belonging.

Eze Ibe Nwosu who promised to maintain high degree of

peace wherever they found themselves in the Territory and

would continue to contribute to the economic development

of Abuja, asked the FCT Administration to carve out new

layouts to develop new markets, in order to decongest the

existing ones.

Speaking further, the FCTA Minister, Malam Bello who

urged the Igbos to extend that same support for President

Buhari to all his appointees in the Federal Capital Territory

to enable them deliver quality services to the Residents as

encapsulated in the Change Agenda of the Federal

Government, however reiterated that his Administration

was working assiduously to make the Abuja light rail

project operational by December 2017; adding that all the

rail corridors would be developed to boost trade and

commercial activities in the Territory.

Malam Bello remarked that the history of Abuja cannot be

complete without the mention of the contributions of the

Igbo traders.

He assured that his Administration would continue to run

an open door policy and all-inclusive government with all

the strata of the society carried along to give every sector

of the country a sense of belonging.

The Minister called for peaceful co-existence amongst all

ethnic groups resident in the Federal Capital Territory;

saying, “we should maintain the tempo of the peace we are

enjoying in Abuja”.

Malam Bello used the occasion to admonish the residents

of the Federal Capital Territory to always report any

suspicious movement to the law enforcement agents, in

order to nip in the bud any security breach.

source: vanguard