President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday, May 23 inaugurate seven legacy projects completed by the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing across the country.
In a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina on Monday, the projects comprises three major bridges, three Federal Secretariat complexes and a road.
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The statement noted that the historic event will be headlined by the Second Niger Bridge which was conceptualised in 2005. In 2014, there was an attempt to begin the project through Public Private Partnership, PPP but this was not successful. The construction began in 2016 with the Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund, PIDF.
Other projects to be inaugurated by the President are the Loko-Oweto Bridge across River Benue to link Benue to Nasarawa States and the Ikom Bridge in Cross River State while the road project is the completed section of the over 200 kilometres of Kano-Kaduna Dual Carriage Expressway and three new Federal Secretariat complexes.
The first of the Federal Secretariats at Awka is located at Executive Business District Layout in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State and is situated on 5.106 hectares of land. The project was first awarded on December 9, 2011 but was practically completed and taken over by the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing on July 14, 2022.
The Secretariat has a total of 498 office spaces, a conference hall, four committee rooms, an exhibition hall, a banking hall, a post office and befitting reception. In addition, the Secretariat has lift facilities, well laid out parking spaces and drainage, staff canteen, fire hydrant and other vital facilities.
The second, Federal Secretariat complex in Gusau, Zamfara State is located at Unguwan Dan Lawan, Off Sokoto By-Pass Road. The project is situated on 7.5 hectares of land and was awarded also on December 9, 2011 but was practically completed and taken over by the Ministry on November 30, 2022.
The third to be commissioned is the Federal Secretariat in Yenagoa, which is located at Alamieyeseigha Road, in Bayelsa State. It is situated on 7.5 hectares of land and was awarded on December 9, 2011 but practically completed and taken over by the Ministry on November 30, 2022.
President Buhari had in February commissioned a fourth one, the Federal Secretariat in Lafia, located at Bukar Sidi along Jos Road in the Nasarawa State capital.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
