Muslim community in Gwagwa town in Abuja have decried the conversion of their eid prayer ground to a market and motor park by the Abuja Municipal Area Council AMAC without providing an alternative.

Abuja Metro reports that Muslims in the community observed their two raka’at prayers to mark the eid el fitr yesterday at the site, which now has commercial shops.

Speaking on the issue, one of the juma’at mosque imams in the area, Malam Usman Abdullahi, said the promise made to provide a replacement by the former chairman of the council, Abdullahi Candido, was yet to be fulfilled, three years after.

“At first, the council claimed to have secured a site nearby from the FCT Agric secretariat to replace our 30-year-old eid ground.

‘’We only observed one eid prayer there last year before the land was immediately fenced with a gate firmly locked,’’ Abdullahi said.

He said another effort to provide land opposite the site as promised by the council authority is yet to yield positive results.

But when contacted, Kingsley Madaki, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Public Affairs to the council chairman, Christopher Maikalagu, said the council was working to secure a permanent space for the Muslim community in the area for the eid ground.

He said, ‘’Government is a continuous process, even if the old space was not taken by this present administration, I will assure you that before the next sallah celebration, a permanent place will be secured for them. The chairman is working on this and I will also plead with the Muslim community to write a letter of reminder to him on this.’’