Vice President, Prof. Yemi
Osinbajo, has said that the federal government under President Muhammadu Buhari
has so far spent $2bn from the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) for the completion
of the second Niger Bridge.
He said this during the flag-off
of the governorship campaign of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Onitsha
area of Anambra State.
Restating the commitment of the
Federal Government in developing infrastructure in the South East, Osinbajo
said: “We are not making promises for nothing. The second Niger Bridge, we have
been talking about it for a long time. But for the first time, President
Muhammadu Buhari went by himself to negotiate the facility to do that second
Niger Bridge.
“And that is why the second Niger
Bridge is in our current budget and we have provided for it. In fact, I am
being reminded that just two days ago, the Sovereign Wealth Fund paid $2bn for
that same project. So we will definitely see our second Niger Bridge. We will
not make promises we cannot keep.”
The VP went on to claim that the
previous administrations abandoned the Lagos-Calabar railway project, stressing
that it has been revived under the APC-led Federal Government.
“When we were talking of railway,
Lagos-Calabar railway, under the old administration, I will not mention them by
name.
“They said Lagos-Calabar will go
from Lagos to Calabar, there was no connection to the South-East. It was when
President Muhammadu Buhari came that we redesigned the Lagos-Calabar in order
to pass through Onitsha in the first place.
“By that new design, we also have
the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri railway that has a connection to Umuahia-Owerri and
Enugu-Awka. So all of those, we will not make promises we cannot keep. Every
promise we make, we will keep,” he added.
Speaking further, Mr Osinbajo
also stresses that Anambra was the first state to benefit from the school
feeding initiative that has employed over a thousand cooks and fed over a
hundred thousand.
He added, “This state was the
first state to receive our home-grown school feeding. This Anambra was the very
first state that we gave money for that programme. And we have already in 807
schools, here in Anambra state where these young children (primary schools) are
already fed.
“We have over a hundred thousand
children that are already fed here in Anambra state, and that is an APC
programme, our home-grown school feeding programme. We have engaged over a
thousand cooks, over a thousand people are cooking. We have our N-Power
programme for young graduates. Already we have employed over 4,000 graduates
and we intend to increase the number.”
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