Residents of Katampe community which is bordered by Gishiri, another suburb community in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are still celebrating the construction of the long-abandoned access road by a businessman, Abdulhamid Mahmud.
The construction of the road by G-COPLEX Nigeria Limited has been ongoing for the past one month under the sponsorship of Mahmud, a philanthropist and businessman.
In an interview, Mahmud said that the gesture was part of his Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and effort to complement the government’s efforts in the area of infrastructure provision for the people.
He said: “Being a businessman particularly with focus on developing properties, it became necessary for me to construct the access road as I have purchased property in the community and there is no access road, as such you can’t invest your property when there is no access road.
“The three-kilometre road located in Katampe village has not been accessed by vehicles in years as the residents suffer before they get to their homes, especially in the raining season due lack of access road.
“In addition to lack of access road, they lack good water and electricity, as such we provided a borehole for them because we know that the government cannot do it alone; so I decided to put my effort in ensuring that something is done,” he explained.
Mahmud added that the FCT administration has good intentions, but may be lacking the exact information on what is happening in the suburbs, especially in infrastructure like access road as in the case of Katampe village that links to other villages and even Maitama Town.
“Initially N400 million was estimated for the primary infrastructure, meaning bringing refuse out the roads, compacting the roads, putting gravels and doing the drainages which is the primary infrastructure. Later we discovered that the soil is bad, so we are cutting the soil. At most, we will round up the work in one week because we have been here for the past 22 days,” he added.
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