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FCTA Threatens to Revoke Non-Performing Cleaning ContractsAbuja, Jun 03, 2010 (Daily Independent/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Administration will not hesitate to revoke the concession of any cleaning contractor engaged if found not to be performing. FCT Minister, Bala Mohammed, who gave this threat on Tuesday during an interactive session with the Abuja Cleaning Contractors in his office, warned that it was not going to be business as usual. The minister warned that his administration will not condone laxity from any cleaning contractor anymore, however highly placed the sponsors of such companies are. Mohammed reiterated that the era when FCT administration had to intervene where there were large volumes of uncollected refuse was over, insisting that everybody must effectively do his or her part by being responsible. According to him, the FCT administration has been paying the contractors promptly and, therefore, expects that they reciprocate the same gesture by improving their services. The minister decried the pockets of overfilled bins noticed in the city and charged the contractors to discharge their duties with dispatch. Mohammed, who enjoined the contractors to do everything to measure up to their terms of contract, admonished them not to only consider the monetary gains but also focus on the interest of the country, because Abuja is the window through which the world sees Nigeria. He promised that the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) will break new grounds by moving into the Area Councils and Satellite Towns to ensure that the message of cleanliness do not only remain in the city centre. The minister said the FCT administration will this fiscal year buy no fewer than 100,000 waste bins to take care of every nook and cranny of the territory. Mohammed directed the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) to immediately clear access to the dump sites to ease movement of compacting trucks to discharge waste on regular basis. |