Anambra revisits abandoned govt house, to spend N6b on project

By : Guardian Nigeria

Date: 19 August 2022 4:03am WAT

[FILES] Candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Professor Charles Soludo, also known as Cee Cee Soludo, speaks after signing of peace accord, a commitment to peaceful elections by all contestants ahead of next November 6 governorship election in Akwa, Anambra State in southeast Nigeria, on November 4, 2021. - Nigeria's southeast Anambra state holds elections for local governor's office on NOvember 6, 2021 in a ballot being widely watched as barometer for the country's 2023 presidential vote. More than 30,300 police have been dispatched to secure the state where separatist tensions have been on the rise and the vote will test electoral authorities abilities to organise a ballot in difficult circumstances. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)

The Anambra State Government has revisited the abandoned government house project in Awka, 31 years after it was initiated.

The state governor, during a state executive council meeting, said the project would gulp N6.088 billion to complete.

This was contained in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Paul Nwosu, after this week’s executive council meeting at the government house.

Governor Chukwuma Soludo, in the statement, stated that his government would complete the project within 18 months.

Work on the new government house has been stalled for about 31 years since the first military administrator of the state, Navy Captain Joseph Abulu, began the project.

The statement said: “The memo on the abandoned government house and 25 other peripheral structures were presented by the Commissioner for Housing and considered by Anambra State Executive Council (ANSEC).

“The project which will cost N6.088 billion and will be completed within 18 months was approved by ANSEC.”