The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who released a statement on the ongoing projects, disclosed that the 69 roads and bridges, which are spread across the five states in the South ast, are now in different stages of completion, thanks to the funding sourced by the present Administration from budgetary allocations, the Sukuk Bond and the Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund.
According to him, though the contracts for many of the roads were awarded before the advent of this Administration, they were either poorly funded or not funded at all, hence work on the roads has lingered.
The Minister who disclosed that the projects include the rehabilitation of the existing Niger Bridge as well as the construction of the 2nd Niger Bridge, said the government is also looking into the possibility of using a part of the recovered looted funds to fund the development of infrastructure across the country.
The FG also promised to publish the full list of the roads and bridges, as well as give a state-by-state breakdown of the total figure.
