The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has described as a
misplaced priority, the proposed new
Abuja City Gate. The Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Senator
Bala Muhammed was quoted as saying that the decision
to embark on the construction of a new city gate that will gulp N64bn,
was one of the steps being taken by
his administration to restore Abuja's original master plan. The
minister said the current city gate was
wrongly located. Reacting to the news on behalf of the Coalition, its
Executive Chairman, Debo Adeniran condemned the
irrational appropriation of taxpayers' hard earned money to irrelevant
project that possesses no economic
potentials for the masses. He said, "It is very disheartening that the
government of the day is so detached from the people. The
recent move of the FCT Minister to construct a new gate where one is
existing with a whooping N64 billion
is the height of insensitivity on the part of the Federal Government.
The questions begging for answer are:
what has gone wrong with the current gate to warrant a new one? Must
we duplicate city gate at the
expense of other meaningful projects that are begging for attention?
This is another misplaced priority by this administration. It is
unfortunate that priority
and such huge money could be devoted to a project that doesn't have any positive
impact on the millions of Nigerians living in abject poverty. This is
nothing but a conspicuous conspiracy
by the Minister and his cohorts to plunder the country's treasury
under the guise of beautifying the FCT
which has no economic relevance to improve the living standard of the
Nigerian masses." Adeniran however urged on the FG to channel the
N64bn into life-changing projects that would dwarf the
ever growing rate of poverty among the Nigerian masses. Abimbola Adegoke
Media Officer, CACOL
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