By Joe Chukindi The Anambra State Government has revisited the abandoned Government House project in Awka, 31 years after the projec...
By Joe Chukindi
The Anambra State Government has revisited the abandoned
Government House project in Awka, 31 years after the project was initiated.
The state governor during a state executive council meeting
said the project would gulp a whooping N6.088 billion to attain completion.
This was contained in a press release by the state
commissioner for information, Mr Paul Nwosu, after this week’s state executive
council meeting at the government house.
Prof Chukwuma Soludo in the release stated that his
government would complete the project within 18 months.
Work on the new government house has been stalled for about
31 years since the first Military Administrator of the State, Navy Captain
Joseph Abulu began the project.
Nwosu in the press release said: “The memo on the abandoned
government house and 25 other peripheral structures were presented by the
Commissioner for Housing and considered by Anambra State Executive Council
(ANSEC).
“The project which will cost N6.088 billion and will be
completed within 18 months was approved by ANSEC.
“Also endorsed for construction are gate houses, police
posts, perimeter fence measuring 2.22 linear kilometres and other internal
works such as driveways, parking areas, walkways, drainages, water supplies,
green area, etc. All of these will be complete at the cost of N1.317 billion
and delivered in 9 months.”
The new Anambra Government House, a project which had been
constructed to a reasonable extent with roofing, was later abandoned to rodents
and reptiles while corrugated roofing sheets and irons used for the project
have all been vandalized and stolen.
The commissioner also revealed other far-reaching decisions
taken by the council including; the abolition of incursion into people’s
property by youths for payment before building, stoppage of indiscriminate
dumping of refuse, and the construction of a 14.053 kilometres dual carriage
road in Okpoko for N9billion, among others.
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