President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday led other dignitaries to perform the ground-breaking and unveiling of the Abuja Centenary City Project.
This came as a former military Head of State, Gen. Abdusalam Abubakar (retd.), appealed to Nigerians to give tranquility a chance.
The cost of the economic project, situated at Airport Road, designated to commemorate the 100 years of the nation’s amalgamation was put at N2.976tn ($18.6bn).
Jonathan, in his remarks, described the project that was designed to cover 1,200 hectares of land, as a city of hope and elegance as well as a symbol of the nation’s unity.
He verbally expressed no other sign could demonstrate the symbol of his administration’s tenaciousness of excellence than the city, which he verbally expressed promises a unique and global standard in authentic estate project.
When consummated, the President verbalized the project would turn out to be a modern city where modern comeliness would merge with architectural ingeniousness.
He verbalized his government’s resoluteness was to make it a sustainable and viable economic project.
“We don’t want to build a city where everybody will have maiguard (security sentinels). We don’t want a city where everybody will dig their boreholes and where everybody will be buying engenderers,” he verbalized.
The Secretary to the Regime of the Federation, Senator Pius Anyim, told the accumulation that the city was not a housing project but rigorously an economic project.
Anyim verbalized the residential area that would be provided would only complement the business concerns.
He disclosed that a Dubai firm, Eagles Hills Properties, would develop the city at no cost to the regime.
He verbally expressed the Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund Authorities had signed an accedence to co-invest with the firm.
Anyim described the project as revolutionary, visionary and transformational.
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