The House Committees would also ascertain the number and location of on-going and/or abandoned critical Federal Government Capital Projects across the country.
The committee would as well as ascertain amount committed, paid and outstanding to date on all on-going and abandoned capital projects and report back within eight (8) weeks for further legislative action.
The House resolution followed a motion sponsored by Hon. Babangida Ibrahim on the true state of abandoned projects.
According to him, “implementation of Capital budgets annually has never, in the past 17 years, reached an average of 50%, thus resulting in proliferation of uncompleted projects all over the country.”
“As at May 2011, there were over 11,886 on-going projects that required over N10 trillion and more than ten (10) years to complete even if an average sum of ₦1 trillion is provided annually to fund the projects.”
“Of the total commitment of ₦7.8trillion for the 11,886 on – going projects, only ₦2.7 trillion was paid to Contractors, implying an outstanding commitment of ₦5.1 trillion as at May 2011,” he said.
The lawmaker in his motion decried the “alarming infrastructure gap in the Country over the past 17 years that is characterized by poor and dilapidated road network, epileptic power supply, a virtually moribund railway system, airports requiring rehabilitation and dilapidated structures in the education and health sectors”.
He noted that trillions of Naira were committed over the years in a bid to provide critical infrastructure in areas such as agriculture, aviation, transportation, education, health, environment, security, science and technology, roads and power supply.
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