FEC approves additional N5.4bn for Enugu, Onitsha road

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday approved augmentation of the contractual cost of the Enugu to Onitsha road by N5.4 billion, bringing the total cost to N15.7 billion from N10.3 billion.
The FEC meeting was presided over by Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Addressing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly FEC meeting, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola said the augmentation would accommodate the need for erosion control measures and drainages.
He said the contract, awarded in 2012, is part of the series of roads captured as Umanna-Udi Agu-Ebenebe-Amansi-Awka- and spurred to Umumbaroad, Section II, in Enugu state.
“The contract was awarded in 2012 covering Enugu to Onitsha high way.
Because of lack of appropriate budgeting and funding, all of these projects could not be completed and there were also failures in implementation, so we inherited it.
“There was also the need to provide for erosion control measures and drains and that has led to revision of the cost.
It was the revision to enable us complete the road project that was presented, discussed and approved by the Council today,” he said.
Also speaking, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said the memo from the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing was the only one discussed at the three-hour meeting.
“His memo was the only one that survived and his memo was for augmentation of an existing road contract,” he said.

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