The Federal Executive Council (FEC) Wednesday approved the N8.6 billion for the completion of work on the Enugu-Onitsha highway.
Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, said this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.
“The Ministry of Works and Housing presented one memorandum to council, which was for the revised estimate total cost for our project on the Enugu-Onitsha highway, it was to add the sum of N8.649 billion for a 22-kilometre section of the 100-kilometre road so that we can expedite conclusion of work there.
“The variation is to cater for change of the pavement surface, binder cost and the wiring cost, to increase the thickness and also to utilise the modified bitumen as well as strengthen the shoulders and some bridge work. So, Council approved this variation of N8.649 billion,” he said.
Also speaking, Minister of State for Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mr Clement Agba, said the council also approved a memo on the reviewed National Integrated Infrastructure Master Plan 2020 to 2043.
“The maiden Master Plan was from 2014 to 2043 and embedded in it as a living document is that it ought to be reviewed every five years. There are about seven asset classes that are contained in the master plan. This is in the areas of transportation, energy, ICT, agriculture, water and mining, social infrastructure, housing and regional development, security and vital registration.
“The maiden edition didn’t have the macro economic framework embedded in it but with the reviewed update that has been approved today by the council, it includes macro economic framework. It also allows for the establishment of the National Council on Infrastructure under the Chairmanship of the Vice President to provide policy direction and infrastructure related materials,” he said.
