By Ismaila Jimoh, Abuja
As part of events towards marking the second year anniversary of President Bola Tinubu Administration, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barr. Nyesom Wike has disclosed that no fewer than 17completed major projects across the territory have been slated for commissioning.
Wike stated this while carrying out final inspection on some of the projects in Abuja on Wednesday.
The Minister disclosed that having gotten the approval of President Tinubu for the commencement of commissioning of the projects, it will now start from 10th of June, and will take a whole 19 days altogether.
According to him: ” I can confirm to you that Mr. President has finally approved Commission of Projects to start on the 10th of June, which is on Tuesday, after the Sallah holiday. And that will start with the International Conference Center and as you can see, we are good to go. The next day, which is on the 11th, it is where we are now, the Gishiri area. We will commission this road from the interchange from Ring-road 1 going to Jahi, and the other side going to Maitama and Mabushi, so we are set to go.
” The President will commission 10 projects on his own, and then we have reduce the projects to 17 now for one or two reasons. The Vice President will represent the President and commission three projects, the Senate President will also represent Mr. President and commission two projects, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives will also represent Mr. President and commission two projects on the whole, 17 projects because of time space. Maybe the other ones, we on our own now can do the commissioning.
Wike expressed appreciation to President Tinubu for his promise to be around for 10 days of the projects commission despite his very tight schedule.
” To be honest, with the kind of support we have from Mr. President, we are very happy, that Mr. President has given an opportunity for us to also contribute for the vision of the Renewed Hope Agenda
“The legislature has given us very good support too, Yes, Mr. President drives it, but the legislature always makes sure that all the requests in terms of budget has been approved without any delay.
“We are very happy that all the promises we made, we have been able to accomplish them. Look at the reaction from people and that tells you. If the people are happy, we are also happy. We can’t tell you how elated we are, but we give God Almighty the glory and thank Mr. President for all his support.
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