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| Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) |
MINISTER of Power,
Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) has stated that President
Mohammadu Buhari has inaugurated an inter-ministerial committee with the mandate to verify all the claims on federal road projects executed by various state
governments in their respective states and assured that those that substantially
certified would be reimbursed by the federal government.
Fashola disclosed this at Ilorin, Kwara State on Tuesday when he
paid a courtesy call on the State governor, Alhaji Abdufatah Ahmed, and categorically
noted that “the issues of road and energy are very germane to our growth
and development” stressing that
some federal roads in the state would soon receive attention as soon as the
2016 Appropriation budget is passed particularly the Jebba-Ilorin road which he
admitted has overwhelming economic importance in Nigeria.
Ahmed while speaking had
called on the federal government to come to the aid of the state by taking care
of the federal roads in the state to enable the state government concentrate on
its boundary as well as other numerous programmes of his administration which are
suspended over the federal government roads in the state. Equally, the governor
called for more support from the Federal Government in the area of infrastructural
development to enable the people of the state benefit from the laudable
programmes of the present administration of President Buhari.
Emphatically, the
governor pledged that the state is ever-willing to make land available for the
infrastructural development and federal housing scheme in the state which is among
the core priorities of the ministry.
It will be recalled that the governor of Anambra State, Chief
Willie Obiano recently raised alarm over the horrible condition of the Enugu-Onitsha
Expressway stating that the state government was already indebted to a tune of
N34billion on federal road projects executed across the state by the state government.
Energy is very important for Economic development
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