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FG owes Road contractors N306bn – Fashola

The Federal Government owes temporary workers chipping away at bureaucratic street extends the whole of N306bn, the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said.

Fashola, who uncovered this at the central command of the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing while at the same time playing host to the Public Transport Owners of Nigeria Association, likewise said the FMWH would have wanted to have the N1tn being spent on oil sponsorship.

Reacting to demands made by his visitors for the moving of streets and scaffolds in Nigeria, the pastor further expressed that a great deal of work was progressing crosswise over government streets across the country.

Fashola said in part, “I heard you talk about tolling roads and bridges. Well, as you said, government is actually spending a lot of money on subsidising fuel. And that is a lot of money from government to spend on subsidy.

“I would have loved that that money came to the Ministry of Works, but the numbers I was trying to get for you is that for over four years, between 2015 and 2018, the entire amount we got was not up to N1tn in actual cash in this ministry.

“The budget, yes! But not all of the budget is funded. So if we had N1tn to spend on Nigerian roads we would be in a much better position. As of October, we were owing contractors N306bn and more bills are coming in and all we got was N73bn.

“And this is the country where some people are of the opinion that the government shouldn’t raise VAT.

“Some people are also of the opinion that government should not even borrow. So I think it is important for those of you here to also come out and take a position.

“When it is time to start; of course, we will articulate a clear policy for the information of Nigerians. That is the much I will say about that,”

The National President, PTONA, a body that comprises of key between state transporters in Nigeria, Isaac Uhunmwagho, said the affiliation was unequivocally on the side of the reintroduction of cost entryways on expressways the nation over.

Uhunmwagho delineated the need streets that ought to get extraordinary regard for incorporate streets connecting Lagos and Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt and Abuja and Abuja and Kano.

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