Tinubu orders review of inherited road projects

President Bola Tinubu has ordered the review of all road projects inherited by his administration to ensure probity and diligence in execution.

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this to State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday in Abuja.

He said the Council decided to step down projects in the Ministry of Works inherited by the Tinubu administration and required cost adjustments and variation.

He said the president directed that the memos presented by the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, be looked at once again at the next council meeting.

The minister said: “The idea was to re-examine, especially those parts that required augmentation or review.

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“The Minister of Works was directed to work with the Minister of Budget and Economic Planning and the Minister of Finance to look at those projects again and bring them strictly in line with budgetary provisions.”

Idris said the Council also discovered that the National Council on Procurement had not been effective in the last 17 years.

“Consequently, the president had submitted a bill to the National Assembly which had scaled through the first reading at the House of Representatives.

“The whole idea is to ensure that we have a robust National Council on Procurement that will look at all aspects of procurement, and to bring every project into the fiscal financial discipline that the President is always talking about,” he added.

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