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In a significant step towards ensuring improved access to clean and potable water in all satellite towns of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the FCT Minister, Barrister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike has flagged off Lot 1 of the Bwari township water supply project.

The Bwari water supply project is a crucial undertaking, involving the installation of a 198-kilometer network of pipes and this new infrastructure will provide clean drinking water to Bwari and its surrounding communities, including Ushafa, Kuchiko, and Kuduru.

Speaking at the flag-off ceremony in Abuja on Wednesday, August 20, 2025, Barrister Wike reiterated the commitment of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration to providing clean water for all FCT residents.

He announced that President Tinubu has approved the immediate release of 50% of the contract sum for both the Bwari and the upcoming Karu water projects to ensure their timely completion, assuring that both projects were scheduled for completion and inauguration during President Tinubu’s third anniversary celebration in May, 2026.

Barrister Wike also unveiled a strategic timeline for future projects, revealing that water projects for the Kuje, Kwali, and Gwagwalada Area Councils will be included in the FCT’s 2026 statutory budget, confidently stating that all six Area Councils in the FCT would have access to clean, potable water by the time President Tinubu’s first term concludes in 2027.

“Today, we are in Bwari. Tomorrow, we will be in Karu, in essence, taking two Area Councils together. By the time we finish with Bwari and Karu, in next year’s budget, by the grace of God, we will go to Kuje and Kwali. By 2027, by the grace of God, we will be talking about Gwagwalada and Abaji. By the time Mr. President’s four-year tenure expires, we would have touched all the satellite towns by providing them clean, potable water.


“Of course this will save you the cost of digging your own borehole, providing of pipes and the rest. All you would need to do is to just link up to the various pipe networks and then the water will flow, clean and treated water. Unlike the one from your borehole, this is fully treated water”.

Barrister Wike while noting that the execution phase of the water projects will provide direct and indirect employment for the teeming youths of the FCT, appealed to the relevant stakeholders, including the traditional rulers and other community members, to take ownership of the projects and give the needed support to the contractors, emphasizing that water is a fundamental human need.

He said, “I appeal to the traditional rulers, I appeal to our youth, I appeal to our women, I appeal to all our community members to take this project as your own project. This is the first time a government has said that you too deserve to have potable clean water because water is life, not just saying it but implementing it.

“I think this is even more important than the road projects you have protected when the contractors are on site. If you can protect contractors when they are constructing roads, you can imagine what you will do as regards the supply of water, which is one of the basic needs in life. So, I urge you to collaborate and support the company so that we can achieve this on record time”.

The Minister assured that the project would be pursued to its conclusion without being abandoned, in fulfilment of the promises made by the President to the people of the FCT and urged the residents to continue supporting the President.

He said, “We have agreed that we are going to bring water and we are bringing water. When I come back to say we have performed, you too you will perform. So, when the President has done for you, when it is your own turn too, do for the President”.

In her vote of thanks, the Minister of State FCT, Dr Mariya Mahmoud described the Bwari water township project as history in the making, emphasizing that the project is more than just laying pipes, but about improving the quality of life of families, ensuring children grow up healthier, and providing clean, safe water for mothers.

Dr Mahmoud expressed profound appreciation to President Tinubu for his consistent support to the FCT Administration and the FCT Minister for his visionary leadership and dedication to the development of the FCT, while also thanking the Area Council Chairmen and other stakeholders for their continued support

Giving the Project overview earlier, the Executive Secretary of the FCDA, Engr. Richard Yunana Dauda had said that the expansion of water supply to FCT satellite town project was a strategic infrastructure initiative aligned with the FCT regional masterplan, which provides for the development of FCT satellite towns concurrently with the development of the FCT City Centre, adding that the project is designed to improve portable water supply to FCT residents.

“In the concept of the FCT regional masterplan, the project is intended to construct and expand the provision of portable water to the satellite towns. Today its Bwari, tomorrow, Karu. Provision to other satellite towns will be made in due course.

"The project provides essential secondary and tertiary distribution network for effective supply of portable water to the teeming populace of Bwari and its environs. The network is an extension of the recently commissioned Greater Abuja Water Supply Project, he stated.

Engr. Dauda said the scope of work of the project include, among other things, the supply and installation of 198 km of various types and sizes of pipes, adding that the project will create job opportunities and provide portable water to not only Bwari town but neighbouring communities like Ushafa, Kuchiko, Kuduru, improving the health and socio-economic well-being of the people of the area while urging benefitting communities to cooperate with the contractor to ensure a hitch free project execution and timely delivery.

In his commitment note, the Deputy Managing Director, CGC Nigeria Limited (the contractor handling the project), Lv Haiming, assured that the project would be executed without delay, to save the people of Bwari the hardship of having to dig boreholes or spend so much money to buy water, saying, when completed, residents will enjoy clean potable water.

PlasmaTV:
We really really really pray that this project sees the light of day.

It's embarrassing that we don't have potable water in 2025. APC is a cancer.

Odobaone:
H8te or like it. Wike is the best man for the job when it comes to development

CapitalLens:
…PLEDGES POTABLE WATER FOR ALL FCT AREA COUNCILS BY 2027

autoez:
We should begin to hold our state governors accountable for their actions. Look at what Wike has been doing in the FCT, Sanwo Olu in Lagos, Soludo in Anambra, and Otti in Abia. While Makinde performed well during his first term, he's been a shadow of himself in the second tenure. Some other few are making efforts, but many are simply engaging in embezzling and neglecting their responsibilities. We can't keep placing all the blame on the federal government; we have governors too. It's time to hold them accountable as well.

Kukutente23:
To flag off easy
Na the completion be the koko
Bwari used to have water before APC the calamity took over Abuja

PlasmaTV:
We really really really pray that this project sees the light of day.

It's embarrassing that we don't have potable water in 2025. APC is a cancer.

PlasmaTV:
We really really really pray that this project sees the light of day.

It's embarrassing that we don't have potable water in 2025. APC is a cancer.

PlasmaTV:
We really really really pray that this project sees the light of day.

It's embarrassing that we don't have potable water in 2025. APC is a cancer.

PlasmaTV:
We really really really pray that this project sees the light of day.

It's embarrassing that we don't have potable water in 2025. APC is a cancer.

osuofia2:
Wike is different, he doesn't start what he can't finish, it's a known facts.. In fact he will give the contractor time frame to deliver it

luckingto50:
Stop attacking APC Government after all previous PDP never make mention of water project for the satellite towns. Please MR. WIKE WHAT OF FHA LUGBE? NO GOOD ROAD AND WATER

Lithiumite:
Why didn't PDP do it in 16 years? But APC in 2 years is already initiating it.The joke is on you bro.

PlasmaTV:
We really really really pray that this project sees the light of day.

It's embarrassing that we don't have potable water in 2025. APC is a cancer.