Leave my roads alone – Buhari warns governors against federal project
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The Minister for Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has disclosed that state governors should leave federal roads alone.
The Minister stated this on Tuesday while facing a House ad hoc
committee investigating abandoned projects in the country from 1999 till
date.
The former governor of Lagos State said that the President, Muhammadu
Buhari gave the instruction in the face of high debt to states for
federal roads constructed by State governors, noting that the President
asked him to tell the governors to “leave his (Buhari’s) roads alone.”
He said, “The states submitted a bill of almost a trillion naira when
President Buhari was elected. He asked us to work out what was their
entitlement and all of that.
“Ultimately, the BPP (the Bureau of Public Procurement) certified
about N44bn – I don’t remember the exact amount now – except for two
states; I think Cross River and…there’s another state. They didn’t have
the documents at the time, which we have sent back to the President. But
the decision to pay those inherited debts, including the ones I
contracted as Governor of Lagos, was with the caveat that I should tell
the governors to leave his (Buhari’s) roads alone. Those were the
directives; I was not the one that took the decision.
“Tell them not to fix my roads again if they’re going to claim
compensation. If you want to fix it and not ask for compensation, send
me what you want to do.
But if you want compensation, go and mind your
business while I mind my business because I have inherited enough
debts!’”
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