The House of Representatives has called on President Bola Tinubu-led administration to revisit over 60,000 abandoned projects spread across the country and complete them for the use of Nigerians.
The Green Chamber at Wednesday, February 28, plenary, lamented the number of infrastructural projects left uncompleted by successive administrations.
In a led debate on the motion titled, ‘Need to access and fix abandoned Federal Government projects across the country,’ and the bill sponsored by a member representing Ijebu North/Ijebu East/Ogun Waterside, Joseph Adegbesan, it was described as disappointing the abandonment of projects in the country.
“Available statistics have shown that over 60,000 projects are abandoned in Nigeria, thereby obstructing citizens from utilising their tax proceeds and natural resources, with the total value of these projects reaching trillions of Naira,” Adegbesan said.
The lawmaker told his colleagues that the projects were initiated and designed to improve the standard of living of Nigerians through electrification, power improvement, provision of portable water, qualitative education, healthcare facilities, construction of roads and bridges.
“Successive administrations have been ignoring these projects on the premise that it was not initiated by their government or not within their policy direction, disregarding their importance to Nigerians and taxpayers’ money spent,” Adegbesan added.
Consequently, the House mandated its Committee on Works to review all abandoned Federal Government projects across the country including the scope of work, commencement date, contract value, the amount spent, and stage of work through Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, with a workable plan to effectively complete the projects.
The committee has four weeks to complete its assignment and report back to the House for further legislative action.
