FG Begins Process For Concession Of 12 Highways
The Federal Government on Tuesday issued a notice for the commencement of the procurement process for the 12 federal highways mapped for concession under the Highway Development Management Initiative.
Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, issued the notice in Abuja and unveiled the portal that was developed to ensure that the procurement process was seamless.
Fashola listed the 12 roads considered for the first phase of the VAC as Benin-Asaba, Abuja-Lokoja, Kaduna-Kano, Onitsha-Owerri-Aba, Sagamu-Benin, Abuja-Keffi-Akwanga.
Others are Kano-Maiduguri, Lokoja-Benin, Enugu-Port Harcourt, Ilorin-Jebba, Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta and Lagos-Badagry.
According to him, the project could create 50,000 direct jobs and 200,000 indirect employments.
“Currently, the government is executing over 700 different contracts, which aggregate to the rehabilitation and reconstruction of over 13,000 km of roads and bridges across all the 36 states, including the Federal Capital Territory,” he stated.
