Infrastructure: Bello restates faith in PPP model

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has restated the efficacy of Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) model of infrastructure development as a sure strategy for meeting the infrastructure needs of a fast growing city like Abuja.  Malam Bello made this declaration while receiving the report of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on the Abandoned […]

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has restated the efficacy of Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) model of infrastructure development as a sure strategy for meeting the infrastructure needs of a fast growing city like Abuja. 

Malam Bello made this declaration while receiving the report of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on the Abandoned Katampe District Infrastructure Project. FCT Minister set up the committee in March this year to review the N61 billion Katampe District engineering infrastructure project and make recommendations on the way forward. 

 “Katampe has to be made to work, or else, the future of developing infrastructure in the city is going to be bleak. Again if we allow the city to develop at this rate, with demography astronomically outstripping infrastructure, eventually, Abuja would be like many other African cities. Consequently, all the reasons for which it was created 40 years ago as well as the huge investments made into it would have just gone down the drain,” he said.

 The FCT minister said it had become necessary to revive the project to put the city’s infrastructural development at par with its demographic, economic and geographic expansion.