The authorities of Bwari Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have been called upon to provide infrastructure in Mpape market to accommodate the recent influx of people into the Area.

The call was made by the chairman, Mpape Market Association, Alhaji Mohammed Abdullahi in a chat with Kapital News, recently.

Alhaji Abdullahi decried a situation where the Mpape market lacked access roads and parking space for traders and customers to park their vehicles.

He therefore appealed to the Bwari Area Council chairman to consider the plight of both the traders and customers by providing the market with the necessary infrastructure.

Alhaji Abdullahi said that the bad state of the market was always aggravated when it rains, considering that there are no drainages for water to pass through.

Taking Kapital News round the market, Alhaji Mohammed Abdullahi said, the leadership of the market association had on several occasions mobilized their members to embark on self –help projects such as tarring some roads in the market, "but the rain always washes away the mixed cement due to lack of drainages", he said.

His words: "you can see this places, they were tarred by members of the market association, but the rain has washed away the cement and the gravel due to lack drainage system."

Alhaji Abdullahi commended the chairman of the Bwari Area Council, Isah Dara Bwari for his untiring efforts in trying to make Mpape one of the best satellite towns in Abuja. He however, appealed to the chairman to do more by making Mpape market a befitting one that can attract customers from all parts of the Federal Capital Territory.

"As part of our contribution to make the market a befitting one, we have contracted some wheel barrow pushers to always fill some holes created by running water with sand and we have also organize our private security (vigilante) to guard the market, which we pay them monthly," Alhaji Abdullahi added.

He further called on the authority of the Bwari Area Council to expedite action on developing the new market, as according to him, "this will reduce the pressure on the old market."

It would be recalled that the demolition exercise embarked upon by the last administration which affected many satellite towns in the FCT, led to influx of people into Mpape and the consequent overstretching of the limited infrastructure including the Mpape market.