…Says it’ll reduce travel time from Abuja to Oturkpo by 3hrs 30 mins
The Federal Executive Council, (FEC) has approved N30 billion contract augmentations for the completion of the 74 kilometre Nasarawa to Loko Road, in Nasarawa State.
The Minister of Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola disclosed this to State House Correspondents in the Presidential Villa, Abuja, after the week’s virtual FEC meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Fashola explained that Council granted three approvals for contracts’ augmentation, all summing up to a total of N38.436 billion, for the Ministry of Works and Housing, including the Nasarawa to Loko Road project.
According to him, the 74-kilometre road project, which was first awarded 15 years ago, in 2006, when eventually completed, would reduce the travel time between Oturkpo, in Benue State, to Abuja by three and a half hours, adding that it is part of the administration’s projects aimed at lifting Nigerians out of poverty.
The Minister informed that Council approved two other contract augmentation approvals, including 13.5 kilometres of road from Onitsha-Owerri Road, through Okija-Ihembosi-Afor-Nkpor Ezinifitte and the 20 kilometre dualisation of Yenagoa Road Junction to Kulu to Otuoke and to Bayelsa Palm.
According to him, both contracts would be receiving an additional N488,980,891 and N7.947 billion respectively, to enable the contractors to complete works on both projects.
