by Emma Elekwa

Barely one month after some traders in the Kubwa main market were sent packing by the authorities of Bwari Area Council through demolition, most people affected by the demolition are yet to get over the shock occasioned by the exercise.

While some are presently staying with relations or friends, who are shop owners at the market, others have resorted to displaying their wares at other convenient places available to them.

Others still, have completely closed down business, as they could not face the challenge and risk of losing their valuable goods in the course of being pursued by the task force officials.

One of those affected, Kamilu Adamu Sauwa, narrated his ordeal to Aso Chronicle. He said that he is yet to overcome the emotional and physiological trauma he encountered as a result of the exercise.

Visibly devastated, the 30-year old man disclosed that he had spent not less than 15 years in the market selling garden eggs, the business he had used to train himself and others in school. 

A second year student of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kamilu expressed fears that the abrupt suspension of his ‘lucrative’ business as a result of the exercise might lead to the end of his academic pursuit.  

According to him, although they had earlier been informed of the imminent closure of their businesses, the visit by task force officials still stunned most of them.

“They told us that that day was sanitation. So we came out a bit late than the usual time we used to come. By the time we came, we saw our tables and chairs being packed into the trucks,” he lamented.

Kamilu, who further accused the council authorities of insincerity and insensitivity to their plights, wondered why they should be treated as aliens even in their fatherland.

“They said they would pursue those who have converted some of the shops to residential apartments. They have not carried out the operation yet but they have rendered us jobless,” he bemoaned. 

While acknowledging that where they were trading is illegal, he pleaded with the authorities to facilitate the relocation process in view of the economic loss and other adverse effects they face. 

However, Chairman, Shop Users Association, Simon Peter Onuoha, expressed appreciation to the council authorities for the measures been taken to give the market a face lift.

He however urged them not to stop only at removing the illegal structures, but to provide the market with some basic facilities like water and toilet.

Meanwhile, the Head of Department, Environmental, Bwari Area Council, Haruna Labaran Ahmed, has called for patience, understanding and cooperation from the aggrieved traders as he said his team is not resting on its oars to ensure they are properly settled as soon as possible.

He said the government was not unaware of the present challenges being faced by the traders as a result of the exercise. 

Haruna explained that the move was “both in their best interest and that of the customers, who hardly patronize them due to the absence of parking spaces in the market.”

by Kubwa Online

Dr Ahmed Danfulani, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Kubwa General Hospital in the FCT, on Monday said the hospital had begun Internet booking to seek medical attention.

The CMD announced this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kubwa.

He said the service for booking appointments was a new way to alleviate most sufferings being faced by patients who needed medical attention.

``A portal is created to book appointments with doctors, unlike what operates before now when patients will come and wait for a very long time.

``After such long waiting, they will still be asked to come back, but on this new method, an appointment could be cancelled and rescheduled.

``The Website will introduce all the services we offer; it will also introduce the various staff and the departments we have in the hospital.

``This is just all about improved service delivery we have to offer to the public and that is why we are here.

``Whatever we can do to make our service delivery easier, better and much affordable for the people is our priority and we will not hesitate, `` the CMD said.

Danfulani said the Website was also meant to intimate patients on the various services that the hospital could offer to them.

He said the Website would always be an interactive one to ensure that the needs of the people were met instantly.

The CMD said the hospital would satisfy the need of the people, with a pharmacy that had the latest software in the country.

He said the Website would also display drugs for inflow and outflow to patients.

The CMD said the lines of doctors were accessible to patients anywhere in the world on the Website for necessary inquires.

He advised the public to log on to www.kubwageneralhospital.com to book appointment with doctors and seek pharmacists’ assistance. (NAN)

Kubwa Online

by Emma Elekwa

A middle-aged man was recently run over by a truck at Kubwa while taking a nap under it.

A witness said the victim, who was fasting, had gone to take a rest under the parked truck after observing a prayer.

He said he had slept off when the driver of the truck came out to move the vehicle without knowing that someone was under it.

According to the witness, the driver initially thought it was a log of wood he climbed over but when he alighted from the vehicle, he saw it was a human being.

He said the victim was immediately rushed to the Kubwa General hospital for medical attention.

The hospital’s Accident and Emergency Unit Head, Paul Olise, confirmed the incident, but said the victim was later moved to General Hospital, Asokoro.

Kubwa Online

Sex Workers

The Social Development Secretariat (SDS) of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has recently relaxed on the arrest of sex workers in the territory.

The Secretary, SDS, Mrs. Blessing Onuh, at a press briefing explained that the secretariat had to quit on the realization that arresting the sex workers was not within its jurisdiction.

She said that while the secretariat was doing a good job, it was important for it to ensure that it was in line with global best practices, thus the decision to stop the arrests.

“Looking at social work from the perspective of global best practice, we were at the end here. SDS cannot make arrest. We cannot apprehend. It is not part of our responsibilities to go on the streets. Ours is to rehabilitate if you take these people off the streets as an enforcement agency and bring them to us,” Mrs. Onuh said.

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Kubwa Online

A 64-year-old man died last Tuesday after falling off from a moving vehicle at Kubwa in Bwari Area Council.

A witness said the deceased, Malam Alilu, was trying to alight from the coaster bus he boarded, when the driver, not knowing that he had not completely alighted, zoomed off. He said the deceased hit his head on the door of the bus and sustained serious injuries.

The witness, who said the incident occurred around 7.30pm, disclosed that the deceased was taken to the Kubwa General Hospital for medical attention.

Reacting, the Head, Accident and Emergency Unit of the hospital, Paul Olise, said the deceased was brought into the hospital in an unconscious state, but was later certified dead after steady gasping.

He further disclosed that his corpse had been deposited at the hospital morgue.

In a related development, a middle-aged woman was nearly crushed to death by a trailer after falling off a moving motorcycle at the popular El-Rufai Park in Kubwa.

A witness said the victim fell down from the motorcycle after the cyclist lost control as a result of the on-coming trailer. He said the trailer crushed the victim’s hand, leaving the hand badly damaged, adding that she was immediately rushed to the Kubwa General Hospital for medical attention.

The Head, Accident and Emergency Unit of the hospital, Paul Olise, said the victim is under intensive medical attention, but is responding to treatment.

Kubwa Online

It was all panic  and  tears  during the week when officials of Development Control Department of Federal capital Territory, (FCTA) rolled out their bulldozers and pulled down  over 15 buildings  in Kubwa.

The department said that it carried out the demolition  after  serving notices last  month to the occupants of the structures built on flood plains at Kubwa.  

According to Tpl Yussuff Abdullahi Sudangi, District Officer, Kubwa, he said, “we are here to remove illegal structures on the flood plains, we have marked several locations, we have countless number of structures, along the flood plains without requisite approved plans and the marking was done since January.’’

When asked if those affected would be compensated, Sodangi said  the compensation aspect would be decided by his  superiors.

As at the time of filing this report, fifteen houses have been demolished and several others still waiting to be pulled down.

Narrating his ordeals, one of the victims of the demolition exercise, Emmanuel Okoro, whose restaurant was pulled down, said he  was not served with any notice, stating that he was only told that the extension of his building was too close to the river, which he agreed to remove but was not allowed before his building was brought down. 

Similarly, a   2-storey  building  said to belong  to the Association of  Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) in Maitama has been pulled down on the premise that the building was illegally erected.

The two-storey building which was built between two fences was said to be part of Ella Crescent and where the building was erected was closed.

Addressing news men, District Officer of Maitama, Isa Aliyu said, “this particular building is on a crescent which is a part of Ella Crescent, we served several notices before this demolition.”

Aliyu added that when the notice was served, the police officer attached to the building refused to collect the notice but asked them to drop it at ALGON office which they did.

Kubwa Online

The police in Abuja have arraigned eight persons, including a woman before an Abuja Magistrate Court for allegedly selling and smoking Indian hemp at Kubwa.

The accused persons all of Phase 4, Kubwa, were charged for public nuisance which contradicts Section183 of the Penal Code.

Police Prosecutor, Igono Ocholi, told the court that the accused were arrested by a police patrol team led by one Deputy Superintendent Olubode of Kubwa Police Station, on June 27, while selling and smoking Indian hemp.

He said the act posed a threat and danger to the lives of other members of the public, especially residents of the area.

When the charge was read to the accused, four of them present at the court pleaded not guilty and the prosecutor asked for a date for hearing.

Magistrate Samuel Edhiari granted them bail in the sum of N30,000 each with one reasonable surety who must be resident within the court’s jurisdiction.

The case was adjourned till July 18 for hearing.

Kubwa Community

Some groups of corps members recently embarked on a sensitization campaign within Kubwa environs on the implications of drugs counterfeiting, unwholesome foods and other regulated products, as part of their Community Development Service.

The corps members, comprising of 2012/2013 Batch B and C, under the National Agency on Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) group, also unveiled a billboard strategically mounted at the Kubwa orientation camp with various messages on the dangers and abuse of drugs.

Unveiling the signpost, the NAFDAC Director General, Dr. Paul Orhi, said the project is a platform provided by the corps members in advancing the crusade against counterfeit drugs being championed by his agency.

The Director General, who was represented by the Acting Director, Special Duties, Alhaji Abubakar Jimoh, commended the corps members for embarking on the campaign, describing it as another way of cementing the partnership his organisation has enjoyed with the scheme over the years.

The President of the group, Peter Nwaogu, said the campaign has become expedient in view of the number of casualties recorded daily as a result of numerous fake drugs in circulation in the market across the country.

He enjoined members of the public to always look out for the drugs’ NAFDAC registration number, factory location, batch number, manufacturing and expiry dates, among other information before buying them.

In her reaction, the coordinator of the group, Mrs. Nnenna Onuigbo, said the essence of the exercise is to further educate people on how to differentiate the original drugs from the counterfeit ones.

While expressing optimism that the exercise would yield its desired results, she said the group intends carrying the crusade to Dutse and to feed NAFDAC back with the reactions from the people at the end of the exercise.