FCT facilities are overstrained – Minister of State

The Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Olajumoke Akinjide, has said that facilities within the city are being over used due to increasing population.

The minister stated this at the 8th National Conference on Investment at the Sheraton Hotel in Abuja.

Represented by the Managing Director of Abuja Enterprise Agency, Ms. Altine Jibrin, Akinjide said the efforts of the FCT administration were overshadowed by the growing number of the people in the nation’s capital.

Akinjide included that there is a need for appropriate demographic data on the FCT population, as that would ensure better planning of programmes.

She said the a recent study by the Demographic Household Survey (DHS) showed that 72.11% of the FCT households earns less than N 100,000 a month. “It will delight you to know that in the working group of the FCT, 18.43% are public servants, 13.3% are private sector workers and 68.27% are self-employed. Clearly, this shows that contrary to the general credence that the FCT’s economy is driven by the public sector, the economy of the FCT is actually private sector-driven with about 81.57% of the working group belonging to the private sector.

“Furthermore, we were able to ascertain that 72.11% of the households earn below One hundred thousand naira (N100,000.00) per month and that the majority of the workers fall within the low income groups. About 46.9% earn below N30,000 per month, 19.77 % earn between N30,000 and N50,000 per month while about 5.44 % earn between N50,000 and N100,000 per month. This means that only about 28% earn above N100,000 per month in FCT.”

She called for understanding and cooperation of FCT residents, adding that the government was working round the clock to ensure their aspirations are met.

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