Evaluation of the Existing Infrastructural Facilities for Slum Upgrading Plan and Measures of old Orozo Township, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

Provision of infrastructural facilities is essential for sustainable living of any developed city, lack of infrastructural facilities most times result to movement of people from one point to another. The Study focused on evaluating existing infrastructural facilities for slum upgrading plan and measures of Old Orozo Township, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria. During the reconnaissance survey the study area was delineated into five (5) zones, with a total of 63,070 housing unit, a total of 380 respondents were sampled Krejcie and Morgan (1970) formula. Questionnaire was used to collect information on evaluate the existing infrastructural facilities in housing of the study area data were analyzed using inferential and descriptive statistics. The results obtained shows that the study area lacks portable water supply, modern sewage, appropriate drainage facilities, refuge disposal and poor road infrastructures. Also, majority of respondents in Zone A (57%), B (53%), C (54%), D (51%) and E (37%) practiced open dumping. The study also revealed that in majority of the respondents in Zone A, B, C, D and E, (79%, 77%, 64%, 84% and 77%) indicated that buildings in the study area are mostly for residential purposes. The study area is dominated with old buildings as respondents in Zone A, B, C, and D (29%, 33%, 34% and 23%) indicated that most of the houses in the study area are 40 to 49 years old while highest percentage of respondents in Zone E (28%) indicated that the houses are up to 50 years. Furthermore, appropriate slum upgrade was perceived as the appropriate upgrading measures considering the policies that can be employed to improve the standard of living of inhabitants and enhance the physical condition of the indigenous community of Orozo. It is therefore, recommended that government should provide Incentives and infrastructures to enable people who wish to embark on housing development within communities other than the capital city. Adequate publicity should be given to these measures even before they are embarked upon especially through extensive consultations with residents and citizens of the community.