Lai Mohammed
The
Federal Government has released the list of the 69 ongoing road and
bridge projects in the South-east (please see attached list).
In
a statement in Abuja on Monday, the Minister of Information and
Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said though the contracts for many of
the roads were awarded before the advent of this Administration, they
were either poorly funded or not funded at all, hence work on the
roads has lingered.
The
Minister said the 69 roads and bridges, which are spread across the
five states in the South-east, are now in different stages of
completion, thanks to the funding sourced by the present
Administration from budgetary allocations, the Sukuk Bond and the
Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund.
He
said the government is also looking into the possibility of using a
part of the recovered looted funds to fund the development of
infrastructure across the country.
While
announcing the projects, which include the rehabilitation of the
existing Niger Bridge as well as the construction of the 2nd Niger
Bridge last week, Alhaji Mohammed promised to publish the full list
of the roads and bridges, as well as give a state-by-state breakdown
of the total figure.
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