Minister: Abuja Was Planned Without Consideration For The Poor, Middle Class

The massive housing and transport
deficiencies associated with the Federal
Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja is as a
result of a wrong building process of the
nation’s capital, Minister of State for
Niger Delta Affairs, Darius Dickson Ishaku, said yesterday in Abuja. The minister, who was speaking at the
opening of Town Planners’ Day, said the
city was envisioned without putting into
consideration the poor and middle class
of society. “If I had the way, I would have first built
the mass transit system, the railway
before building the city,” he said. Minister of State for FCT, Mrs.
Olajumoke Akinjide said Abuja was
conceived to be an administrative place,
not for commercial or industrial
purpose. President of Nigerian Institute of Town
Planners (NITP), Steve Onu in his address
read by his deputy, Bulus Sachi,
lamented that the master plans for the
city have not been fully implemented.