••• Relocates Mechanics to Wassa
By Festus Fifen
After more than 15 years of Unresolved Crises between different unions and interest groups operating in the Apo Mechanic Village in the Nation’s Capital Abuja, Coordinator of Abuja Metropolitan Management Council, AMMC, Chief Felix Obuah has settled the Crises with a call to the traders to organize themselves in order to benefit from the numerous development plans put in place by the Federal Capital Territory Administration FCTA.
In a meeting on Tuesday with 17 recognised unions and 16 others, Obuah announced to the mechanics and traders in the affected areas that the FCT Minister, Barr. Ezenwo Nyesom Wike has approved a land in Wassa district of Abuja for all the affected people to be relocated there for ease of doing business and not also causing obstruction to Road corridors along the Apo Area.
Speaking with journalists after the meeting Obuah said: “This issue of Apo Mechanic and traders have lasted for over 15 years, I am just three months old in this office and we have settled the issue, today they are happy, they are smiling and we are smiling.
“Over 50 unions that have been quarrelling, I have reduced them to four and they are happy. I’ve been able to bring every body together, all the noise has died down.
“We’ve decided to relocate all the traders on the road corridor, buffer zone and the right of way to Wassa any moment from now and they are all happy. As I speak to you, the minister had given approval, even the task force to effect the smooth movement and relocation.
We have enough space, as a matter of fact, I can accommodate as much as they are genuine. The enumeration team to verify them is already on ground, it will not be a situation when one man will bring his family member. The minister has given a marching order and we have to follow it judiciously without compromise. In less than one month, we will relocate them. Where we are taking them is a permanent place.”
Earlier, Obuah explained that enumeration would be thorough and that the traders and mechanics provide their NIN for the allocation to stall double registration.
The AMMC Coordinator made it clear that the allocations would be for individuals, not unions, but that he would need the unions to get the job done.
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