By John Wada, Keffi
General Manager Greater Karu Development Control Agency (GKADCA) in Nasarawa state, Esv. Yakubu Auta Haruna has urged the general public particularly those reciding in Western zone of the state and are into development of structures to always take full advantage of the government agency in the area in order to provide them with necessary information, guidance and expertise as the carry out their developments.
He stated this in a chart with our correspondent in his office Friday.
According to the general manager, the call has become imperative considering the significant contribution of the agency in times of planning and controlling developments among other functions and so developers must always contact and engage the agency for a quality job devoid of risks and losses.
He said “Greater Karu Development Control Agency covers Western zone of the state here comprising 5 L.g.cs such as Karu itself, Keffi, Nasarawa, Toto and Kokona and our main function is the planning and development control.
If you observe this area is closer to F.C.T Abuja and so has to be planned inline with their development growth because it’s an area that witnesses inflow of persons on a daily basis as well as developments so much as such has to be given special attention though the other local governments are not as developed as Karu yet they are developed in their own levels and we plan them also settlement by settlement in order to tally with the present realities.
And so I want to use this medium and call that people should build according to plans, a planned area is a development area.
You don’t believe because you have money you will just start building without following the necessary channels to get approval from the authority and so I am calling on them that we are here for them, let them utilise us because we have experts here, like those communities that want to carry out some development projects like road constructions and others, I expect them to contact us so we can give them experts that will guide them by designing the project for them free of charge, they are not paying any amount because like I told you earlier our goal is to have a well planned communities. “
On some of the achievements recorded so far by the agency barely 4 mounths under his leadership, Esv. Yakubu Auta Haruna explained “You know the agency was created last year and we were inaugurated in October same last year and when we resumed duties, almost everywhere is leaking including this office we are sitting.
In fact there was a time it was raining and water was dropping directly from the roof and spoiled the rough carpet on the ground then and every where was dusty and smelling but today as you can see it’s a tiled office.
We try to make sure our staff have a clean place to sit and work and we don’t use to have light here but today it’s a different story we are using 24hrs light and our staff have stopped working outside to get ventilation as they use to they are all in their offices working now.”
The general manager then added that the main challenge currently faced by the agency is that of mobility as the lacked operational vehicles for inspections and other official engagement calling on government to come to their aid even though according to him governor Sule is already aware of that and has since make a commitment towards it.