The Nigerian Senate has passed a resolution calling on the Federal Government to include the North East region in the “Renewed Hope Legacy Road Infrastructure Projects”.
This comes after Senator Danjuma Goje raised a motion highlighting the region’s exclusion from the initial project announcement.
The Senate’s resolution emphasizes the economic importance of the North East and the need for its inclusion in the project, which aims to connect the country and promote socio-economic growth and national unity.
Senator Goje’s motion was supported by Senators Diket Plang and Solomon Lalong, who also stressed the importance of including the North East and North Central regions in the project.
Senate President Godswill Akpabio commended Senator Goje for bringing the motion forward and upheld the prayer for the North East region’s inclusion in the legacy projects.
The “Renewed Hope Legacy Road Infrastructure Projects” aims to connect different regions of the country through landmark projects, including the Sokoto-Badagry Superhighway and the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway.
Goje said: “This bold initiative is part of the Renewed Hope developmental agenda of Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which upon completion will undoubtedly inter-connect the country and bring about unprecedented socio-economic growth as well as foster national unity and integration;
“Aware that the legacy projects, as shown on its map, designed by the Federal Ministry of Works, excluded the North-East Geo-political zone from the whole equation.
“This has stimulated unprecedented concerns and agitations from the region given the strategic roles these projects will play in this country, hence the need to include the North-East in the projects.”
Senator Diket Plang representing Plateau Central Senatorial after seconding the motion, revealed that he had a similar motion close to the plight of road infrastructure in the North Central that linked to the North East, according to Daily Post.
He said, “This motion does not rest with the North East alone, because sometime in 2018, the road from Akwanga to Jos to Gombe to Adamawa was approved by the Federal Executive Council, FEC for construction. Up till date, some surveys were done and up to date, nothing is done on it.”
“I cherished the desire of Mr President to embark on great development of infrastructure, but North East and part of North Central from Akwanga to Jos to Gombe which is the outlet and inlet to the Federal Capital and the North East back to the Federal Capital and from the North East and Central back to the South West and South-South are deplorable.”
