The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a N28.4 billion augmentation in the contract for engineering infrastructure development in the Wasa Affordable Housing District of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The contract was initially awarded to Gilmor Nigeria Limited in 2014 at the cost of about N56.9 billion with the augmentation bringing the total cost to about N85.04 billion.
The Minister of the FCT, Mohammed Bello, disclosed this while briefing correspondents at the end of the FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday.
He explained: “The council approved the revised estimated total cost of the contract for the provision of engineering infrastructure to Wasa Affordable Housing District in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
“Council augmented the cost of the project to be completed in 42 months by N28,117,904,027.00 from the sum of N56,925,048,940.98 approved in 2014 to a new contract figure of N85,042,952,967.98
“The District has a total area of 367.11 hectares.’
Bello remarked that more than 35 per cent of the project has already been executed.
Speaking on the provision of facilities, the FCT Minister further explained: “All the facilities that are meant to be there in any typical district infrastructure. Of course, you clear the entire area for the road network, and then you do the road, or you do the bridges. And then you provide the sewer system, including telecommunication and water and electricity dots.
“In addition, in this particular district, we are going to have two waste treatment substations and then two electricity substations. So, it’s a whole comprehensive development of a district and drainage, and, of course, a number of bridges. We are talking of something that is probably the size of Maitama. It is quite large.”
FEC also approved N2.044 billion for the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) in respect of a contract for the construction of internal roads and drainages to the Polaku Gas Hub in Bayelsa State.
