{"id":61834,"date":"2025-02-27T03:35:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T03:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61834"},"modified":"2025-02-27T04:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T04:38:59","slug":"gurfata-community-faces-water-crisis-disease-outbreaks-seek-wikes-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/27\/gurfata-community-faces-water-crisis-disease-outbreaks-seek-wikes-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"Epidemic Looms in Gurfata, Community Seeks Wike&#8217;s Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ade Iyamoye<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of residents in Gurfata community, Ibwa Ward, Gwagwalada Area Council, are battling severe water scarcity, relying on contaminated streams for survival, a situation fueling disease outbreaks and deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Civic group MonitNG has called on FCT Minister Nyesom Wike and Senator Ireti Kingibe to urgently address the crisis, warning that continued inaction could lead to more loss of lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor decades, residents have suffered without boreholes or reliable wells. The government must act now to provide clean water, a basic human necessity,\u201d MonitNG stated in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>Despite years of complaints and government neglect, the organisation is demanding the immediate drilling of boreholes and sustainable water solutions to end the suffering of over 5,000 residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye Thousands of residents in Gurfata community, Ibwa Ward, Gwagwalada Area Council, are battling severe water scarcity, relying on contaminated streams for survival, a situation fueling disease outbreaks and deaths. Civic group MonitNG has called on FCT Minister Nyesom Wike and Senator Ireti Kingibe to urgently address the crisis, warning that continued inaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61844,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61834\/revisions\/61844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}