The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has described the proposed new Abuja City Gate as a misplaced priority.

Reacting to the news on behalf of the Coalition, Executive Chairman Debo Adeniran condemned the irrational appropriation of taxpayers' hard earned money to irrelevant project that possesses no economic potentials for the masses.

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Muhammed was quoted as saying that the decision to embark on the construction of a new city gate, at a cost of N64bn, was one of the steps being taken by his administration to restore Abuja’s original master plan, adding that the current city gate was wrongly located. Said Adeniran: "It is very disheartening that the government of the day is so detached from the people. The recent move of the FCT Minister to construct a new gate where one is existing with a whooping N64 billion is the height of insensitivity on the part of the Federal Government. The questions begging for answers are: what has gone wrong with the current gate to warrant a new one? Must we duplicate city gate at the expense of other meaningful projects that are begging for attention?” He described as “unfortunate” that such a huge amount of money could be devoted to a project that would have no positive impact on the millions of Nigerians living in abject poverty.

“This is nothing but a conspicuous conspiracy by the Minister and his cohorts to plunder the country's treasury under the guise of beautifying the FCT which has no economic relevance to improve the living standard of the Nigerian masses," he declared. He urged on the government to channel the N64bn into life-changing projects that would dwarf the ever growing rate of poverty among the Nigerian masses.

By SaharaReporters, New York

Wasteful and yeye government!

500billion-Naira SURE-P missing,now 64billion-Naira for Abuja-gate.....I'm dumbfunded!!!.....let me try to mutter some words...EVERYTHING HAS EXPIRY DATE.!!!

Ijoba Oninakuna, Awon Apa.. Arungun!! O Ku Odun Kan Ati Oshu Kperete Ti Ara Kunrin Jonathan Ati Emewa Re O Fi Ijoba Sile!

Nkan Be Oooo!!

Yes ! Thats my country NIGERIA !

BEST GOVT IN THE WORLD !

MORE GREASE TO YOUR ELBOW!

#suffering and smiling as usual......

Some news ... ... they just wanna make you cry for misappropriation of public funds

News lyk dis alwz mkz me wanna cry 4 ma beloved nation......mayb d gate wil b made of DIAMOND



God jst dey watch una 4 HD oooo

ledafaze: Some news ... ... they just wanna make you cry for misappropriation of public funds

i was like...are they mad.? ASUU mata still dey ground..dem no clear am

64bn naira..? Simply outrageous.

64 ...?

I sorry for Nigeria.

more to come

64billion for ordinary gate..
Chineke..

Na God go punish una ooo....... Y'all just kip on profligating our money... Bad leaders!!!!

OMG!!!

Even great Wall of China Sef!

Habba Kai Gubnatin Nijeria...even if na the whole of Naija dem wan fence sef!

hmmm...nAwaOOoO!

Musa, I get mission 4 u ooo....... E be like say u go enta Abuja go throw stone o!!!

Mr Aboki: SO you people dont want Abuja to be secure abi?!

u b real aboki, secured my a$$, dat moni knw 2mussh

Do dis people really think?.............hw is d gate going to b of economic importance to us or can't dey just use d money for something meaningful?..... I believe d money will b very useful in completing d abandoned east-west road or even Lagos-Ibadan road

they are preparing for 2015

Can it get any worse? I donno who is trying to outdo who in this their race of corruption. 64 whopping billion naira for a gate?! Will the gate lead to heaven? More importantly, amidst the cries of NOI that the country doesn't have money, especially when the ASUU strike still lingers, and someone is talking about a gate. It is true. Nigerians will kill Nigeria.

64 billion when its not wall of china they are building

I comment my reserve

Ntin dey secure 4 Abuja jooor,they are jst wasting resources dat are suppose 2 be used for meaningful projects.

God dey!

i am still waiting to hear sometin

Mr Aboki: SO you people dont want Abuja to be secure abi?!

Would it prevent further bombings in Abuja or external invasion? People are concerned about the cost especially at a time when so many things are begging for financial attention.

I think it's rather unfortunate that these guys are still in government. This table MUST turn and Naija MUST be blessed with seasoned, intelligent and purposeful leaders not professional time-wasters who are busy marking time and smiling to the banks.

Naija is too blessed and endowed than to have the kind of leadership we have right now, their approach to national issues is far too low intellectually.

If aasu hear this,they wont call of strike