Nigerian Govt Publishes 69 Ongoing Road/Bridge Projects In South-East (Full List)

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The Federal Government has released the list of the 69 ongoing road and bridge projects in the South-east.

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.

The 69 projects which included the rehabilitation of the existing Niger Bridge as well as the construction of the 2nd Niger Bridge, cost over N680 billion

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.

The governors had alleged infrastructure neglect of the zone by the federal government. They did this through the Director-General of South-East Governors Forum, Simon Otuanya.

Mr Otuanya made the allegation when he presented a monitoring report on performance of the 2017 federal capital budget in the South East.

The minister, recently, at a function in Ilorin responded that the allegation was “incorrect, unfair and fly in the face of available evidence’’.

He promised to publish the full list of the roads and bridges, as well as give a breakdown of the total figure.

Click here to view the list.





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