Adefioye Iyunade
The Federal Executive Council has approved N5.49bn for revised costing of federal secretariat projects in five states and a dam project in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja.
The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola; Minister for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mohammed Bello; and the Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this to State House Correspondents at the close of the week’s FEC meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Speaking on his Ministry’s presentation, Fashola, said he sought an approval for the revision of contract sum for the completion of federal secretariats in five states, where federal officials had not been properly accommodated.
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According to him, the revision of up to N3.975bn was necessitated for the projects, which had been approved since 2011, noting that the costs for execution of the projects had since gone up over the years.
He said, “The secretariats are necessary to enable us house federal workers in these states. The problem arose from the creation of new states, some of the old states took the whole secretariats, so our staff in those states, across all federal ministries, are either in rented official premises for their work or squatting in state government premises”.
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