FCTA Approves 9 Fresh Infrastructural Projects
By: Wisdom Acka
In order to deepen infrastructural provision in the FCT, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has granted approval for nine new projects across the Territory.
Chief of Staff to the FCT Minister, Chidi Amadi, made this disclosure, while addressing journalists after the end of the 14th FCT Executive Committee meeting held at the official residence of the FCT Minister in Life Camp on Tuesday.
“In the EXCO meeting today, 13 numbers of memos were presented. Out of the 13 memos, three were stepped down for some technical reasons, probably to be represented later, while 9 memos were critically examined and approved under the watch of the Honourable Minister.
“These nine memos are intended to continue to deepen the infrastructural development and the upgrade of our great city, Abuja, and its environment”, Amadi said.
On his part, the Acting Executive Secretary (ES), Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), Richard Yunana Dauda, disclosed that the Authority presented seven memoranda to the FCT EXCO, which were all approved.
Dauda revealed that the projects include upgrading and supporting obsolete street lights on the Ring Road 1, which is a 14-kilometer, 10-lane expressway, also known as the Nnamdi-Azikwe Expressway, running from Maitama to Gudu. He explained that the route is usually dark at night because the street lights were installed 15 years ago.
He continued that another memo was approved for the construction of one block of magistrate courts at Jabi, while the other was for the provision of pedestrian access control at interchanges, including fencing out with mesh wire, the interchanges, the green areas in the interchanges and loops, as well as walkways at the interchanges.
Dauda stressed that these projects would secure the interchange areas as well as limit the movement of miscreants and criminals within the interchanges.
The Acting ES also revealed that projects were approved for the construction of access roads, totalling 1.7 kilometers with drainages and culverts in the Durumi district around the Apostolic Church, as well as the provision of access roads and infrastructure to parts of the Mabushi district, amongst others.
He added that the project would provide access roads, underground drainage services, street lighting, and other facilities like water and sewage collection systems.
The remaining two projects approved for the FCDA are the complete renovation, furnishing, and technical installations at the Department of State Services headquarters, as well as the control of erosion at a major pipeline from Lower Usuma Dam through Kubwa, the airport, to Gwagwalada.
“Erosion has taken place on the major pipeline feeding the various tanks up to Gwagwalada, and it was a threat to the major water supply to all these areas. So, a company called CGC was invited, and they carried out the work on an emergency basis, and that has been completed. The FCT approved that, and that is to be finalized and implemented,” he explained.
According to Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) Coordinator, Felix Obua, the Council got approvals for the operation and maintenance of Apo Erector, as well as the operation and maintenance of Wupa Basic Sewage Treatment Plant.
Obuah added that his Council also sought and got approval for the extension of service contracts for the provision of solid waste collection and management services.
He revealed that the cost of all three approvals totalled about ₦2.6 billion.
