FG to rehabilitate Abuja federal secretariat with N8.1bn
The Federal Government has approved N8.1bn for the rehabilitation of the Federal Secretariat, Phase I, in Abuja.
The decision was taken on Wednesday at the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council presided over by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Bello, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of the meeting.
The secretariat, located in the Three Arms Zone, was said to have been inaugurated in 1993.
The minister said a “massive rehabilitation” would be carried out on the multi-storey complex.
“The third memorandum is for the rehabilitation of Phase I of the Federal Secretariat which involves electro-mechanical systems, water systems as well as other general rehabilitation.
“This is a secretariat that was inaugurated in 1993, quite a long time ago. So, we are doing massive rehabilitation of that at a total sum of N8, 110,665, 676.76 and the completion period is 24 months,” the minister said.
