The Federal Government on Monday released a list of 69 ongoing road and bridge projects in the South-East to debunk allegation of infrastructure neglect by some governors from the zone. The governors had alleged infrastructure neglect of the zone by the Federal Government, through the Director-General of South-East Governors Forum, Prof. Simon Otuanya. Otuanya made the allegation when he presented a monitoring report on the performance of the 2017 federal capital budget in the South East. The minister, recently, at a function in Ilorin responded that the allegation was “incorrect, unfair and fly in the face of available evidence’’. He promised to publish the full list of the roads and bridges, as well as give a breakdown of the total figure.

Source: Punch August 27, 2018 18:56 UTC