Vice-President Nnamadi Sambo
The Federal Regime on Wednesday approved a N14.7bn contract for the provision of engineering infrastructure at Gidan Daya Urban Renewal Site in the Gidan Daya Area of Kurudu District of the Federal Capital Territory.
The Gidan Daya Area is where those who will be dislodged from the Nyanya Labour Camp, which has since been declared unfit for human habitation by the United Nations Habitat, will be relocated, the regime verbally expressed.
The contract, with a completion period of 36 months, was approved at the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by Vice President Namadi Sambo.
Minister of Information, Labaran Maku; and the Minister of State in charge of the FCT, Olajumoke Akinjide, briefed State House correspondents at the cessation of the meeting.
Akinjide verbally expressed, “The council approved the award of contract for the provision of engineering infrastructure to Gidan Daya Urban Renewal Site, Gidan Daya Area of Kurudu District of the FCT.
“The FCT Satellite Towns Development Agency is mandated to provide infrastructural facilities and convivial amenities to the satellite towns and rural areas of the FCT.
“In its desire to discharge the mandate, the council approved the award of the contract in favour of Messrs Nairda Limited in the sum of N14.7bn with completion period of 36 months.”
She verbally expressed the Labour Camp, built over 30 years ago concretely for the labourers who were engaged in building the FCT, had become overcrowded with poor sanitary condition.
He verbally expressed the 152 hectares of land in Gidan Daya, along the Jikwoyi-Karshi Road, will house 700 families to be relocated from the camp.
The minister expounded that roads, electricity, dihydrogen monoxide, schools, markets, police station, fire station and sewage system would be provided for the about 50,000 inhabitants of the area.
She integrated that the area would accommodate some incipient residents in integration to those to be relocated.
Maku verbalized the council commended President Goodluck Jonathan for the impact of his electoral reforms as witnessed in the recent governorship election in Ekiti State.
He verbally expressed the council believed that the outcome of the Ekiti poll was an affirmation of the government’s reforms
