FCTA Provides Office Accommodation For New Livestock Ministry

By: Wisdom Acka

FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has hailed the creation of the Ministry of Livestock Development by President Bola Tinubu; saying it is a welcome idea.

The Minister stated this, Wednesday, during an inspection visit to the proposed Office Complex for the new Federal Ministry, near the NNPCL head office, Central Business District, Abuja.

Providing reasons for the visit, Wike said: “We have a directive from Mr. President to go and immediately refurbish the place for the new Ministry of Livestock. That is why we went there to see things for ourselves”.

He explained that the FCT Administration would “get some companies to look at it and quote for it as an emergency work.

“Creation of the Ministry of Livestock is a welcome development, you can see people are happy, waiting for it to start. And so now that, that particular place has been identified, the President has instructed the FCT Administration, to look at it, which is okay, and we will now rehabilitate and furnish it, for the Ministry of Livestock take over”, he assured.

The Minister stressed that the FCT Administration would urgently take the “best and most responsive bidder that we know that government will afford to handle the job”.