BABATUNDE FASHOLA REELS OUT PLANS FOR HIS MINISTRIES.

Minster of Power Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola.

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, reeled out his plan for the three ministries he oversees at a press conference in Abuja today.  He said the focus on roads is to complete those already at some level of completion.

According to Fashola, 200 road contracts were stopped and revitalizing them would bring 20,000 jobs. Regarding power, Fashola said efforts are on to improve on National output. He said the Ministry of Petroleum is constructing new pipes to transport gas to power Generation Company. This construction could be concluded in 15 months and would potentially add 2,000 megawatts to the current power situation.

The Minister of Power Works and Housing added that government would support local manufacturing of meters as an opportunity for entrepreneurship.

He also revealed that the Transmission Company of Nigeria has 142 transmission projects on-going; 45 of them at 50% completion, 22 of them can be completed within a year. This will improve power.

On government plans to construct 40 blocks of 12 flats per block, in each state of the federation, Fashola said this will give 480 flats per states. States will however, have to provide 5 to 10 hectares of land for the project.

Babatunde Fashola was however emphatic that all this can only be possible if the Budget is approved insisting that 2015 appropriation couldn’t have achieved much since overhead and recurrent expenditure took large portion of it.