By Joseph Erunke

ABUJA—SENATOR Dino Melaye-led Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory, FCT, yesterday, queried the FCT administration over dirt in the capital city.

To this end, it has given the authorities concerned, a 21-day ultimatum to clean up the area, saying failure would incure the wrath of the committee.

It particularly gave the Abuja area councils the deadline to clean up parks, markets and the entire FCT or face the committee ‘so punishment.

Melaye, APC, Kogi West) handed down the order when the committee met with chairmen of the six area councils in the FCT.

Melaye said the FCT was too dirty to be the seat of power and a capital city stressing that no state capital around the world was as dirty as the FCT.

He said: “This committee is giving you three weeks to clean up the metropolis, the environmental sanitation in the FCT particularly the area councils especially AMAC is poor.

“You see heaps of rubbish on the road side, Abuja is the pride of Africa, we cannot let this continue.

“After three weeks if you don’t clean up the FCT we will clean you up: you cannot be collecting revenue from the market and the market will be very dirty.

“You go to our parks and it is an eye sore. Two weeks you won’t clean the parks and you are generating money from that park, and when they ask you will say there is no money.

“We are very serious about cleaning up the city  within three weeks, clean up Abuja, especially the satellite towns.”

Melaye queried why a lot of money was being generated from markets and parks and yet they remain very dirty.