Reps Urge FG To Revisit Over 60,000 Abandoned Projects
The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, called on the President Bola Tinubu-led administration to revisit all abandoned projects spread across the country and complete them for the use of Nigerians.
Leading the debate on the motion, ‘Need to access and fix abandoned Federal Government projects across the country,’ the sponsor of the bill and member representing Ijebu North/Ijebu East/Ogun Waterside, Joseph Adegbesan, described as disappointing the abandonment of projects in the country.
Adegbesan said, “Available statistics have shown that over 60,000 projects are abandoned in Nigeria, thereby obstructing citizens from utilising their tax proceeds and natural resources, with the total value of these projects reaching trillions of Naira.”
The lawmaker told his colleagues that the projects were initiated and designed to improve the standard of living of Nigerians through electrification, power improvement, provision of portable water, qualitative education, healthcare facilities, construction of roads and bridges.
The lawmaker added, “Successive administrations have been ignoring these projects on the premise that it was not initiated by their government or not within their policy direction, disregarding their importance to Nigerians and taxpayers’ money spent.”
Consequently, the House mandated its Committee on Works to review all abandoned FG projects across the country including the “scope of work, commencement date, contract value, the amount spent, and stage of work through Ministries, Departments and Agencies with a workable plan to effectively complete the projects.”
The committee has four weeks to complete its assignment and report back to the House for further legislative action.
