The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Perfect Estate Developers Ltd, Arc. Dayo Babatunde, has raised alarm that politicians have begun to take credit for privately built infrastructure in their localities.
Babatunde in a chat with newsmen yesterday said that the access road to his Perfect Estate in Kuje, Abuja has been variously appropriated by politicians and being showcases as part of their projects to undescerning citizens.
Asked whether some politicians have begun to take credit for the N200 million access road to his 600 units estate, Babatunde said “Already that is what we are getting but we are here to also state it clearly that we (Perfect Estate Developers Limited) did the road and we did it for the benefit of mankind.”
Responding to a question on why his company had to take the burden of building road infrastructure upon itself, the Perfect Estate Developers’ boss said it sometimes would be futile waiting for the government to do so.
He lamented that the burden of obtaining a N200 million loan to construct the access road could have been taken off his company’s shoulder had the government yielded to the call for provision of infrastructure in the area.
Babatunde said the financial aspect was also a challenge of what we are using to do the project itself is what we are also pumping out to make up for the road.