Malam Musa Bello, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has stated that the ongoing rehabilitation of the National Assembly Complex will cost N30.222 billion.
He stated this on Thursday, during an oversight visit to various project sites being built by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCDA) in Abuja by the Senate Committee on FCT.
Bello stated that President Muhammadu Buhari approved the cost of NASS complex rehabilitation at N37 billion, which was included in the Federal Capital Development Administration’s 2020 budget.
According to him, the amount was reduced to N9.25 billion in the revised 2020 budget to allow the FCDA to pay contractors, leaving a balance of N21.025 billion.
According to him, the total cost of rehabilitation work, N30,229, 290,830.35 billion, was not included in the National Assembly’s annual budget of N128 billion, as some have suggested.
He also revealed that the contract, which was awarded on December 30, 2021, has a two-year completion period.
He stated that ITB Nigeria Ltd completed the National Assembly Phase II, also known as “the White House,” from 1996 to 1999, with no major rehabilitation work done on the building over the years.