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FEC approved spending N5.4 billion on just one road
The government has approved a ton of projects to be carried out and one of them is a road expected to link Benue state and Enugu state which will cost N5.4 billion.
The Minister of Power Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola explained to reporters after the meeting that this road construction was in support of agricultural growth in the country.
"This is a major agrarian connectivity in support of our agricultural policies. The council approved that memorandum, the award was to the existing contractor who is already working on the Benue section so that we should have a seamless deployment of machines and materials to the site. We expect that this should be completed in 24 months. The contract sum is N5.44 billion," Fashola said.
On the breakdown of the project, he explained that "My Ministry handled one memo today and it was for the Ugbokolo section of the 9th Mile/Oturkpo road that links Enugu State to Benue State. The Benue section is already under construction, so, what we have just done is to award the 36 kilometers that connect the Enugu section to the road. It is a 7.2 meter width road and total rehabilitation of what is currently being done there."
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Hadi Sirika who is the Minister of Aviation also said independent power supply to Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport was approved during the meeting.
He said: "As you are aware, we had challenges on our first day of work in 2018. The new terminal building at the Nnamdi Azikiwe airport, which is called Chinese building, has the challenge of power, water, sewage."
"We have to find a way of dealing with those challenges; we are putting up an independent power system at the airport which has been approved by FEC. Subsequently, we will also tend to the challenges of water, sewage, apron, connectivity between the old and new airport and all the fire stations that are blocking the usage of the airport and perhaps also the control tower that is connecting the other side of the airport."
The FEC approved both projects which should successfully be carried out over the course of 2018 and be concluded in 2019.
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