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FG spends N300bn on 300 road projects

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, has said that his Ministry was spending about N300 billion to fix over 300 roads across the country.

He disclosed this to newsmen at the end of his tour of the ongoing rehabilitation work on the Hadejia-Nguru Highway connecting Jigawa and Yobe states.

He said the Federal Government is engaging in massive rehabilitatwion and reconstruction work on Federal Highways and interstate road across the country, adding that his Ministry was working on over 300 roads across the country.

The Minister also told Journalists that his Ministry has spent over N300 billion so far in fixing roads across the country adding that Hadeijia-Nguru Highway is an inherited project from the previous government, adding that the cost of the 75 kilometre road is N7.5 billion.

Fashola said the Federal Government was keen on fixing all abandoned road projects across the country regardless of which government started the project.

He commended the Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Badaru Abubakar, for completing all the abandoned road projects in the state, adding that the roads belong to the people of the state not the party in power.

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He commended the contractor of the project for hiring over 250 Nigerians to work on the site adding that the multiplier effect of the construction work across Nigeria is to create means of earning a living among ordinary Nigeria.

The Minister observed that Nigerians of diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds are working freely at the site. He chided those promoting religious fault lines in the country to desist from doing that in the interest of peace and development.

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