The Minister of
Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola while speaking to State house
correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting at the state
house
Abuja, yesterday, said that the Federal government will not embark on the award
and construction of any new road project until existing road projects from the
last administration have all been completed.
Fashola said the
last administration awarded 206 road contracts worth about N2 tillion which
have not been paid for.
He said that roads
that are of great economic value such as the Lagos-Ibadan expressway where
important items such as Fuel or Food are to be transported to all parts of the
country, are of topmost importance to the government.
He stated:
“What we have done
was first to say that we would not award any new road contract. We would deal
with the over 206 roads that have been awarded but not funded for over three
years.”
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