The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the sum of N68.6 billion for roads projects in the country, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, said on Wednesday. Addressing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly FEC meeting in Abuja, the minister said N64.108 billion was approved for additional work on 43 kilometers part of section one of the LagosIbadan expressway to accommodate the changing factors occurring on the project. “This covers Glover leaves, pedestrian bridges, and toll plazas for that section so as to accommodate changing nature of that road since conception; so many new structures, religious institutions, factories, universities and increased human activities that have come up along that road.
“The inherited design didn’t provide for all these at all. The second section under RCC about 80 kilometers will come to Council to incorporate similar works including drainage works e.t.c when we finish procurement,” he said. The minister said N4.57 billion was approved by the council for Sumaila-FalalaBirni Bako-Bauchi road linking Bauchi and Kano states.
