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Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by Positivist: 9:02pm On Nov 13, 2016
As part of activities to mark his one year in office, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, addressed a press conference yesterday where he listed the gains of the three ministries under his watch. Read the text of his address below



Ladies and Gentlemen, Our memories will recall that on 11th November 2015, Mr. President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, concluded the process of constituting his cabinet by administering the oath of office on ministers.

I was assigned to consolidate a newly merged ministry of Power Works and Housing, shortly after which I briefed members of the public and the press about our plans, in my maiden press briefing tagged “Setting The Agenda.”

While some of the assumptions may have altered somewhat about the timing of the budget, a budget was eventually signed into law on Friday 6th May 2016 (6 months ago) and we have set about implementing the budget of N260.082B with releases of N70B made in June (for Quarter I) and N60B made in October (for Quarter II).

It is now exactly a year since we were sworn into office, and I believe it is an appropriate time to acquaint you with our progress of work.

Because 3 (THREE) ministries are involved, I will dwell on summaries in order to manage time, but from time to time I will highlight some details whenever they are necessary to explain a point and to reinforce our commitment to remain accountable to you, our employers.

WORKS

This ministry as we all know is responsible for civil Works especially the construction of roads, bridges, buildings and other similar civil engineering undertakings.

As I mentioned during my briefing on the agenda setting, we had inherited about 206 road projects already contracted out; with outstanding completion costs in the region of N1.5 Trillion.

Although the works ministry share of the 2016 appropriation was N260 Billion, which was a lot more than the 2015 budget of only N18 Billion that the last administration left, it is a drop in the ocean against the liabilities that were outstanding to contractors.

Our interactions with contractors showed that many of them had not been paid for an average of 2 to 3 years before we resumed, and this explained the stoppage of works, by the contractors, the layoff of workers, and consequently poor condition of many roads.

With limited resources against liabilities, with debts already owed, we had to make difficult choices of deciding which of the 206 roads under contract we should start with, and how many.

Our choices were informed by the realities of our economy and the size of our resources,

We resolved that all roads are economic roads but that some were more urgent and more impactful than others.

So our choices were determined by roads that carried the heaviest cargo, to allow farmers, businessman, industries and travelers move their goods and themselves across the country in order to drive productive activity.

Secondly, we chose roads that support our energy sufficiency and put our resources in roads leading to and from petroleum tank farms so that we can move petro, diesel and kerosene across Nigeria.

We also chose roads that led to and from our major sea and airports so that maritime business can go on, to drive the economy.

Therefore, we re-mobilized contractors back to work on roads across the 6 (SIX) Geo-Political zones, with the list provided in Annexure I to this brief which I will leave with you.

Some important roads in this category are:

– The Port Harcourt- Aba Road, where mobilization was delayed until Monday 31st October because of rains, and the difficulty of establishing a works yard.

– Sokoto – Tambuwal – Makera-Kontagara Road where work is going on, – (Sokoto-Kebbi-Niger States)

– Ilorin-Jebba Road, – (Kwara State)

– Loko-Oweto Bridge, – ( Nasarawa/Benue States)

– Shagamu- Ibadan , – (Oyo-Ogun State)

– Shagamu – Lagos, – (Lagos-Ogun State)

– Ogbomosho-Oko-Ilogbo-Osogbo , -(Oyo-Osun State)

– Funtua-Katsina , -(Katsina State)

– Wukari-Akwana , – (Taraba State)

– Abriba –Arochukwu – Ohafia , – (Abia State)

– Abuja – Lokoja – Airport , – (FCT/ Kogi State)

– Oji-Achi-Obeagu-Mmaku-Awgu-Ndeaboh-Mpu-Okpanku , -(Enugu State)

– Ajase Ipo – Offa – Erinle – Osun State Boundary , – (Kwara State)

– Ikot Ekpene Border- Aba – Owerri Dualisation , – (Akwa Ibom/Abia and Imo States)

We also paid consultants who are supervising these roads and had been denied payment for 2 to 3 years. This has helped to recover lost jobs, and put some money back in circulation, as part of a government strategy to build out of this recession.

As I said during our first briefing, our short-term objectives are to complete uncompleted road contracts, restore motorability back to as many roads as possible, improve journey times and reduce the cost of travel for commuters.

This has clearly started on the roads I have spoken about; and the results will accrue as progress on the works improve over time and the roads are completed.

In the medium to long term, we intend to cover more roads as our resources permit, and increase our maintenance capacity of road assets to ensure that we do not neglect our highways again in the manner we have done over the years to our collective detriment.

The first step to maintenance is to restore the authority of all the states controllers of works, to charge them to take responsibility for all federal roads within their states posting, and to bring up an annual budget that will be submitted to Parliament.

This will help us decentralize authority over road maintenance, vest responsibility on the people who are on ground and closer to the Roads so that they can resurface damaged roads, clear over-grown vegetation, enforce axle-load compliance, install signs and lane marking and gradually restore our highways back to contemporary quality.

2017 AND BEYOND – WORKS

Going forward in 2017, we have developed proposals for the budget to intervene in critical roads in the 6 (SIX) Geo-political zones that lead to and from major food producing states based on information supplied by the Ministry of Agriculture.

We plan to do the same for states that produce minerals from mining activity, and for states where we have strategic fuel depots.

For decades, we have paid almost no attention to bridges built across the country as though they are indestructible.

We are beginning to see erosion, stress, and in some cases failures and near collapse in Kano (Tamburawa), Lagos (Ijora), Kogi (Lokoja) Ogun (Long bridge on Lagos-Ibadan) Kaduna (Jaji) and other places.

Although we have started some work in a few places, we have only about N2 Billion to work in the 2016 budget.

We have nonetheless developed a 3 (THREE) year plan to cover 42 (Forty-Two) bridges that will require about N277 Billion authorization by Parliament over the period.

I must also point out that we received representation from parliamentarians about roads in their constituencies and from the monthly FRSC reports all of which have been factored into our next three-year plan.

How far we go, how much we get and how much we can do, now depends on how much money the country can get, and how much she gets approval to spend.

POWER

Following the privatization in 2013, the ministry is now largely a policymaker, and regulator through NERC [Nigerian electricity regulatory commission] and is now only directly responsible for expansion and maintenance of the transmission line through (TCN) and completion of projects started before the privatization which were uncompleted and about which I will share a few details.

The story in power is not different from that of works in terms of uncompleted projects in transmission.

As I said in my meeting briefly, we inherited over 100 transmission projects for which contractors were not paid for about three years.

This not only resulted in stoppage of work, laying off of workers, but left projects uncompleted.

But it also resulted in contractors abandoning over 800 containers, which contained transformers, switches, panels and other equipment needed as materials to complete transmission projects because they could not pay for them.

To compound the situation there was no provision in the budget of 2015 to pay them as only N5 Billion was budgeted for the Ministry of Power.

All this has changed. The ministry has N24 Billion for 2016 and has started paying contractors and getting the necessary approvals for them to return to work.

Examples of these are in Sokoto, Maiduguri, Okada, Alagbon, Damboa, Nasarawa, Gurara, Osogbo, Kashimbilla, Kumbotso, Ikot Ikpene to mention a few.

This puts a lie to the narrative that the transmission grid is static at 5000 MW and is not expanding because these projects add to the capacity.

Furthermore, with the budget we have started paying the shipping companies and warehouse owners who kept custody of the containers, and the report I received last week indicates that a first batch of about 400 containers will be released to contractors to go out and do their work.

In addition to transmission, we are working to complete uncompleted power generation projects to deliver on the incremental power program of our roadmap of incremental, steady and uninterrupted power.

Some of the projects that should start coming to conclusion in 2017 are the 215 MW Kaduna Power, 40 MW Kashimbilla Power (Hydro), 40 MW Gurara I Power (Hydro), 29 MW Dadin Kowa Power (Hydro), 10 MW Katsina Power (Wind) 1,125 MW (14 Solar projects) and the 240 MW Emergency Power Project for Afam (Gas).

We are working with the generation companies to increase their power generation capacity through repairs and maintenance.

Egbin has restored all its turbines even though it has suffered a gas outage as a result of vandalization.

Kainji, Jebba and Shiroro have increased the number of functional turbines, so they are producing 300 MW extra power during this year’s rainy season, more than they did last year.

As at 5 November 2016, reports reaching me from the control center showed a peak generation of 4010 MW, and this is without the 3000 MW lost to gas pipe vandalization.

I am aware that efforts are in progress to repair and restore the damaged gas pipelines, and also to fast-track emergency gas supply.

Government has also recently provided a guarantee to ensure supply of gas to Calabar power plant, which has power and transmission, but no gas to operate efficiently.

On the distribution side, we continue to work with the DisCos to improve their customer service and in particular meters supply.

As you heard on a recent TV program hosted by Channels TV called ‘The Crux’ some of the local meter manufacturing companies attest now to improvement in orders to supply of meters.

As you will have also seen, I have been involved in meter distribution flag offs in Kano, Benin and Sokoto.

All told, while there is still work to do, and there is the big problem of liquidity to overcome, the promise ahead looks good, the plans are clear and our resolve to implement is unwavering.

2017 AND BEYOND – POWER

Going forward we intend to roll out our Rural Electrification Implementation program which Mr. President has now approved as required by the law.

Our objective is to improve access to power for rural communities.

You will have heard of our education intervention project, which is indeed a rural electrification implementation project.

We are using universities as one of the anchors because they are in rural areas and they represent a quick way to penetrate the rural areas and also expand to villages and towns in rural areas, close to the Universities.

We are starting with 37 federal universities, seven teaching hospitals, to which we plan to deploy 37 independent power plants of nine gas plants, and 28 solar plants to guarantee a cumulative 120 MW, to replace 1,105 generators that are producing a wasteful 210 MW.

We have done the audits and planning of all the schools and if we get financing authorization we can implement, to provide access to power to our people in the rural areas.

The second anchor of our Rural intervention is the use of small Hydro dams; that are in the rural areas to support agriculture and Agro processing by providing power.

The approval for the first 6 (SIX) is pending for consideration by the Federal Executive Council.

All of these sources of power, with embedded power from Paras Energy 40 MW gas in Lagos, the expected completion of Azura power in Edo, expected gas supply to Ihorbor Gas power plant, Gegeru power, Olorunsogo, Omotosho, Gbarain and others make me hopeful that we can get incremental power.

How well we do with making the incremental power steady and ultimately uninterrupted will depend on how we as a people resolve issues like vandalization, electricity theft, electricity conservation, invocation of court powers in utility regulation and of course strikes.

HOUSING

We have not yet started constructing houses. But tenders have been considered and over 500 contracts are now ready to be issued for work to start in earnest.

However, we have received land from 27 (TWENTY-SEVEN) states as at 24th October and more are still responding.

We have completed simple designs of one, two and three-bedroom bungalows for the northern states to respond to the cultural, climatic and land use peculiarities.

We have completed simple designs of one, two and three bedroom blocks of Flats for Southern states also in response to similar peculiarities.

We have identified inputs like doors, windows, tiles, paint, roofing materials that can be made locally and we have resolved to use only made in Nigeria inputs unless there is no local production capacity.

We have done some inventory of quantities of materials needed in order to provide investment information for local manufacturers to position to respond and supply in order to create employment and get factories back to work.

These include:

A) Materials

i) 22,288 – Doors
ii) 27,849 – Windows
iii) 3,502 – Water cisterns
iv) 3,502 Wash hand basins
v) 2,830 – Kitchen Sinks
vi) 261,299 – Sq. Meters of floor tiles
vii) 178, 680 – Sq. meters of wall tiles
viii) 561,119 litres of paint
ix) 342,960 Sq. Meters of roofing material

B) Skilled Labour

413,000 Man days

C) Unskilled Labour

440,000 – Man Days

While our planning and research continues, the above is at least indicative of the kind of attention and dedication we are demanding of our staff and the response we are getting.

2017 AND BEYOND – HOUSING

Going forward in 2017, we plan to build more houses first to stimulate jobs.

Thereafter, we plan to assess the affordability and the acceptability of our designs.

Thereafter, we plan to industrialize the production of the most affordable and acceptable designs.

We will then increase supply using private sector as developers while government will then concentrate on strengthening institutions like the Federal Mortgage Bank to deliver on its core mandate of providing mortgages to working class people to own their homes.

It is my belief that if we can achieve this, the size of our housing deficit will not appear that daunting again, because it will be a system that can respond every year, instead of once in a while, to repeat housing construction, delivery and acquisition.

How much we can then deliver will be defined by the size of our resources and our ambition, and not by the absence of a workable plan.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am done. I thank you for listening.

Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN
Honourable Minister of Power, Works and Housing



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Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by talktonase(m): 9:11pm On Nov 13, 2016
Let the person below me comment abeg light no dey my house for 6weeks now cry

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Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by omowolewa: 9:31pm On Nov 13, 2016
Much cannot be achieved without Public Private Participation and Concessioning.

Bad portion of the road is just too numerous, GENCOs & DISCOs have already taken charge of Electricity sector while government alone can't provide the housing needs.

There is no magic Fash can perform without Local investors. He should stop forming super.

Unfortunately, FG is been chased by the shadow of itself, because investors are afraid of opening their safe to avoid EFCC hunt. Goodluck!

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Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by LadyExcellency: 9:37pm On Nov 13, 2016
What is this supposed to mean? Does Fashola know these roads listed below?

Ikot Ekpene Border- Aba – Owerri Dualisation, – (Akwa Ibom/Abia and Imo States)

Why is Fashola so insensitive and devoid of conscience to have listed any Southeast road when nothing has been done? He even shamefully added Aba - Portharcourt road in anticipation.

Where are the fabricated pictures to start with?

Government of the Confused by the Propagandists and for the Zombic Sycophants.

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Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by Nobody: 9:38pm On Nov 13, 2016
Sai Baba Tunde Raji Fashola

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Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by Paperwhite(m): 11:10pm On Nov 13, 2016
Government of propaganda,by propagandists & for the gullibles.

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Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by dunkem21(m): 11:17pm On Nov 13, 2016
OK, lemme ask the road users..

If you think Fashola has done well, click *Like..

*Share to register your displeasure cool

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Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by HtwoOw: 8:41am On Nov 14, 2016
Will there ever be a chance for Fashola & Osinbanjo Presidential ticket?



It would have been the greatest thing that's ever happened in Nigeria

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Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by PaulIdu: 8:50am On Nov 14, 2016
Electricity supply is currently pathetic, I see that Fashola hasnt changed one bit from reeling out fake statistics to hoodwink gullible Nigerians ..

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Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by Moreoffaith(m): 9:10am On Nov 14, 2016
Bro make I no lie u, u no try at all Na gen plus fuel plus wire = light I dey use and yet I pay thousands for what I don't use, gimme prepaid make I know say my money =light

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Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by lightheart(m): 9:10am On Nov 14, 2016
Nice one!

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Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by engrjosefz(m): 9:30am On Nov 14, 2016
kk
Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by eleko1: 9:31am On Nov 14, 2016
sad so long a letter
Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by Realdeals(m): 9:32am On Nov 14, 2016
Some Nigerians are just pathetic, if the man does not say anything they will complain. He spoke now they are shouting propaganda.
Those shouting they do not have light should go and meet the disco in there area, challenge them if you are paying bill without light, they are private entity now. They'll beg you If you have proof of your claim and threaten to report them to NERC.
It's unfortunate that Nigerians do not believe all these channels work, illiteracy is still our major challenge.

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Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by Nobody: 9:32am On Nov 14, 2016
grin grin grin grin

It's only in Nigeria people take out advert spaces to speak for their "works"...You know the type of people I mean Ooo.

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Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by Earth2Metahuman: 9:32am On Nov 14, 2016
talktonase:
Let the person below me comment abeg light no dey my house for 6weeks now cry
go and pay your bill so Nepa will restore light

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Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by chemicalDisease: 9:32am On Nov 14, 2016
GEJ was clueless,
We didn't have a president but we had a government.
Buhari is super clueless , we hv a president but we don't hv a government.
Fashola shattap and drive.

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Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by Thisis2raw(m): 9:32am On Nov 14, 2016
This one na wash.

No evidence to proof
Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by HoldenCaulfield(m): 9:34am On Nov 14, 2016
And yet ipod yoots keep calling baba names..... Continuu
Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by gurunlocker: 9:35am On Nov 14, 2016
This is uncalled for as its another propaganda..... When you are working, we will tell you.... All those power you listed above are just there, it's not added to the national grid, so automatically there's no improvement in power.....

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Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by thesicilian: 9:35am On Nov 14, 2016
Earth2Metahuman:
go and pay your bill so Nepa will restore light
Its like you live abroad. Paying your bills doesn't guarantee power supply. The only payment that restores power in this country is payment for petrol or diesel for your generator. Some are going for inverters. In my area we only have light on few days a month, usually in the last week of the month when "NEPA" officials will be going round to distribute bills.
How do you reconcile using light for about 10hrs total in a month for a three bedroom apartment and you get a bill of N20,000?

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Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by eezeribe(m): 9:36am On Nov 14, 2016
OK
Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by jonumehh: 9:36am On Nov 14, 2016
Fayose is working
Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by Daniel058(m): 9:36am On Nov 14, 2016
Something is missing on the list!




U think we ve forgotten all the lies you told?
Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by freesinzu(m): 9:37am On Nov 14, 2016
chemicalDisease:
GEJ was clueless,

We didn't have a president but we had a government.

Buhari is super clueless , we hv a president but we don't hv a government.

Fashola shattap and drive.


Can you pls elaborate sir

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Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by DNA9(m): 9:40am On Nov 14, 2016
Garbage
Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by weezii(m): 9:40am On Nov 14, 2016
The heat this period wan kill person. No light,
Diesel is at N190/litre.

These days guys dey even price the nepa bill which has been on the increase without power supply.

Well we can't die rather we'd pray for 2019 to do quick come.

Even the roads done by the previous FG /State administration is claimed by the present administration.

Somebody please wake me once it's 2019

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Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by Oxtonguy: 9:40am On Nov 14, 2016
Good one
Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by EMMYB0Y(m): 9:41am On Nov 14, 2016
make 2019 reach make them all get the hell out of there with their lies..... ...this picture below best describes how our ministers are deceiving our president... Mtchewww. . who the hell said school is not important ...

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Re: Fashola Lists Achievements Of His Ministries In The Last One Year by chemicalDisease: 9:41am On Nov 14, 2016
freesinzu:


Can you pls elaborate sir

is this just hard for u to comprehend?
Send it to ur lecturer.

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