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Refuse
By Bukola Olaifa
Abuja, Sept. 14, 2016 (NAN) Refuse bins in the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) are now overflowing following the long holiday from the last weekend and the Eid el-Kabir celebration.
A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who went round the council on Wednesday reports that uncleared refuse bins littered areas like Apo, Utako, Karimu, Nyanya and the AMAC secretariat in Garki.
The correspondent further reports that the stench oozing out of the bins scared people away.
Some of the residents of the areas who spoke with NAN decried the situation, saying it posed a health challenge to them.
Meanwhile, workers in some ministries and parastatal agencies appeared not to be done with the holidays as they stayed away from work after the two-day public holidays.
Many of the offices visited, including AMAC, recorded a low turnout of workers.
Mr Danladi kabiru of AMAC said the low turnout could have resulted from workers who had traveled out of the FCT.
On her part, Mrs Veronica Adeosun blamed the low turnout on the current economic challenges that made it difficult to pay transportation fares to work. (NAN)
BOL/LAB/MVO
(Edited by Lydia Beshel/Mbadiwe Okwor)