Nigeria’s outgoing minister of Works and Housing, the Minister of Power Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola has disclosed that he and the team with whom he worked at the ministry will be leaving a system that would make the future sets of leadership in the ministry, work for efficient.
Nigerians will evaluate the Fashola service at the Ministry of Works and Housing after the 29th of May in relation to the execution of interventions on federal road policy, with an emphasis on roads that are essential to economic and social development.
The Fashola government claimed that 13,000 of the more than 36,000 kilometres of federal roads for which he has been responsible for the development have been altered in some form. leaving over 26,000 road networks that the new administration would need to make comparable changes to.
Roads, bridges, homes, signage, and the linear metre of lane markings provide insight into the work accomplished with the various budgets for which he has made ninety-one visits to the National Assembly on accountability missions.
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Various innovations were adopted and implemented to reach over 60% of the federal road challenges that have either been repaired, rehabilitated, or completed. These measures which attracted the SUKUK, NNPC, and advanced Cooperate Tax Funds pooled resources to meet the challenges in the sector.
The ninety-one visits to the National Assembly were to request and defend seven budget cycles, of these varied innovations that would up the budgetary allocations and access to funds beyond the amount inherited from the PDP administration that could not meet the Progressives ideology of development.
‘The 2015 budget was N18bn for the whole of Nigeria, so Lagos Abeokuta road at that time was estimated to cost about N55bn to N56bn. There was only ₦18bn for the whole of Nigeria.
‘The progressive Ideal could not tolerate that, and now carried out an expansionary fiscal policy from N18bn to N264bn in the very first year. That is way far an ideological difference, and when we talk of the change during our campaign, that is something that changed,’ the outgoing Minister said at a briefing on the tour of duty as Honorable Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Records obtained by Africa Today News, New York which was sourced from the respective National Budget from 2017 -2021 a Cumulative of ₦764,211,865,409 on road all of which performed above 70% on average.