Two days to the end of the regime of the President, Muhammadu
Buhari’s, the outgoing Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has
said he would have stopped work as minister last year as his handover note was
prepared in September 2022.
He disclosed this at the contract signing ceremony for the
value-added concession under the highways development & management
initiative.
The minister was reacting to the recent uproar by the public
after the president directed all cabinet members to continue work in their
various offices till May 29, 2023.
But Fashola said that left to him, he would have stopped
working and left the remaining work to the incoming administration to continue.
He said, “So there is a conversation going on out there,
asking why we are still working. People are asking why we are awarding
contracts, so maybe we should stop here and wait for the incoming
administration to sign this agreement.”
“Is that not better,”
Fashola queried with the participants echoing a loud “No” in response.
He continued, “There is an argument going on out there. I
think it is a conversation we must have because some people don’t like the
party in government.
“And I think in order to enrich our democracy, we must begin
to have conversations if the government must stop work.
“For me personally, I prepared my handover note last year in
September, but more work kept coming, so I would have stopped work since
September.
He added, “Even today, some people are still sending me
messages to sign a Certificate of Occupancy.”
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