Stakeholders Hail Wuse Market Facelift

Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have commended the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) and the FCT authority for the face lift given to the Wuse market environment.

The residents who spoke in separate interviews with newsmen in Abuja noted that the Wuse market area was an eyesore before the intervention of the authorities.

Some of them complained about the distance they had to trek to the market from the point of alighting from the various commercial vehicles.

One of the residents, Mr. Umar Faruk, said that the action of the FCT authority in stopping vehicles from off-loading passengers at the Wuse Bustop, had reduced human and vehicular traffic in the area.

Faruk, who expressed satisfaction with the current situation, decried the previous situation where some unpatriotic people were using the bustop as public convenience, especially at night.

According to him “The action of the FCT authorities has drastically reduced the menace of people using the public structures and place of rest for their conveniences like defecation and urination”.

He further observed that some traders had converted some of these places to their shops, and as he puts it “bustops have been converted to shops where goods are sampled for sale”.

Also commenting, Mr. Martins Ike, said that the action of the authorities had also stopped the evening market on Herbert Macaulay Highway, adding that some people who refused to rent shops for one reason or the other had turned the highway to their trading shops in the evenings.

He also urged the FCT administration to create a motor park for motorists operating along Herbert Macaulay highway, pointing out that the same scenario wouldoccur at other bus stops, if urgent steps were not taken to prevent it.

He also urged the FCT authority to build more stalls to accommodate those that are ready to do business legitimately.