The President Bola Tinubu administration has expended N300 billion on the six Area Councils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), its Minister, Nyesom Wike has said.
The minister broke the news yesterday at Ibwa in Gwagwalada Area Council where he inaugurated the nine-kilometre Paikon Kore-Ibwa Road.
Wike said: “Mr President committed N8.5 billion to construct this road. The Aguma Palace-Market Road is N22billion and it will be commissioned in May this year.
“We have completed and are still renovating the School for the Gifted Gwagwalada, Government Secondary School Gwagwalada, Government Secondary School Anagada, Government Secondary School, Tunga Maje and Government Secondary School, Giri. The total value for these is N16.5 billion. I haven’t added the three police divisions that we are building in Gwagwalada.
“If you calculate the total value of what Mr President has committed to Gwagwalada alone, it is over N50 billion in less than two years.
“If you now add the six Area Councils, you will see that Mr President has committed not less than N300billion for the development of satellite towns.
“It is important for people to have these details so that people will not go and start saying Mr President is developing only the city centre.”
Coordinator, FCT Satellite Towns Development Department (STDD), Abdulkadir Zulkiflu, recalled that the contract for the Paikon Kore-Ibwa Road was awarded on January 5, last year while work kicked off seven days later.
“We are here today, January 22, 2025, to commission the road. This road has enhanced business opportunities and the transport of goods and services,” he stated.
Community Liaison Officer on the project, Ibrahim Maikeri, told reporters, who were on an independent assessment of some projects, that over 70 communities on that road had been positively impacted by the road.
According to him, the road had been neglected after it was first constructed over five decades ago, thereby making it difficult for farmers to sell their produce outside Paikon Kore due to its deplorable state.
