N86.6b approved for Works, Aviation projects • Fashola calls for road maintenance contingency fund

Posted on Sep 02, 2021

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved contracts worth N86.6 billion for projects in Works and Housing, as well as Aviation ministries.

Works and Housing Minister Babatunde Fashola (SAN); the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, and Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Minister Sadiya Umar Farouk, announced the award of the contracts on Wednesday while addressing State House correspondents after the week’s virtual FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Fashola said the contract for the dualisation of the Odukpani-Itu-Ikot Ekpene Road was approved at the cost of N79.649 billion.

The minister said the affected part of the road is the section from Oku Iboku Power Plant to Abak, which is about 26 kilometres long.

“This will help complete the dualisation gaps between the one awarded to Julius Berger and the section awarded to the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC).