FG approves construction of Marraba - Donga road in Taraba, allocates N6.397 billion

Musa Affos (Rhapsodi), Jalingo

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved the sum of N6.397 billion for the construction of Marraba - Donga road in Taraba State.

The construction of the road as gathered by Rhapodi Affos Blog RAB was awarded to Wishchina Engineering Limited at the sum of N6.397 billion which is part of the N39.771 billion released by the federal government for various road contracts across the country.

Minister of Works and Housing Mr. Babatunde Fasola said this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja.

“The memorandum we presented today was on behalf of FERMA. FERMA is the parastatal of the Ministry of Works and Housing responsible for the maintenance of federal roads.
“During the meetings of the Economic Sustainability Committee set up to manage the impact of Covid, one of the responsibilities of FERMA is to execute extensive labor works on road repairs and the budget of 2020 was then amended to deal with Covid impact.

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“As a result of that, FERMA then had a total of 191 road repairs, road rehabilitation, road intervention projects nationwide. 92 of those projects have been awarded by FERMA at its threshold level. 89 of them have been approved by the ministry at the ministerial tenders board threshold level.

“So, all of those projects are now being issued letters of award, mobilization, and others. Now, there are 10 that are required to come to the Federal Executive Council because of their financial threshold level. Out of those 10 projects, three were presented today.

“So, those three presented and approved by council today was for Gasamu-Hamshi-Gogoram road in Yobe State for N14.528billion to MotherCat, the link road connecting Uneme-Tusamu-Odoga to Okpekpe in Etsako East local government area of Edo state for N991.851million, and Mamabu Donga local government area road in Taraba South Local Government Area of Taraba State to Wishchina Engineering Limited for N6.397 billion.