The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), Musa Bello, has said that the on-going rehabilitation of the National Assembly (NASS) Complex would cost the sum of N30.222 billion.
Bello stated this during an oversight visit embarked upon by the Senate Committee on FCT to the FCTA. The minister said the National Assembly Phase-2 project, popularly known as the ‘White House’, was built from 1996 to 1999 by ITB Nigeria Ltd, adding that no major rehabilitation work has been done since then.
Bello, who said that the contract, which was awarded in December, 2021, to be completed in 16 months at the sum of N30,229,290,830.35, added that the amount paid as at this Thursday, stood at N9.bn. “The commencement date is April 16 and the project is expected to be completed August 15, 2023”, he stated, while listing some other priority projects embarked upon by the administration to include rehabilitation of the Federal Secretariat complex, construction of southern parkway from the National Christian Centre to Ring Road.
Others, he said, were rehabilitation of the expansion of the Outer Southern Expressway, provision of engineering infrastructure for Wuye District, rehabilitation and expansion of Outer Southern Expressway Villa Roundabout, and completion of B6, B12 and Circle Road in the Central Area.
He explained that the ministry gave priority to some projects in the FCT over others due to scarcity of funds.
Chairman of the Senate Committee on FCT, Senator Tolu Odebiyi, who led the committee members on the oversight visit, expressed the committee’s satisfaction, saying: “what we have seen is quite impressive”.
