The four top leaders of the National Assembly have snubbed a set of government-provided homes that have already gulped more than a billion naira in construction, asking instead for new houses at a more secure location.

The Federal Capital Territory Administration said weekend that the construction of four posh homes for Senate president, David Mark, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, and their deputies, Ike Ekweremadu and Emeka Ihedioha respectively, has been suspended after they rejected the location of the buildings, citing insecurity.

Authorities will now convert the structures to guest houses for the four lawmakers, the FCDA said.

Speaking weekend, FCT minister, Bala Mohammed, who was represented by the FCDA Director of Public Building, Bernard Lot, said work was ongoing at the project before the lawmakers made it clear they will not accept the houses.

“You will recall that we had started that project, and there is a contractor carrying out the road work. You can actually access the place because the contractor has actually commenced work and has also done reasonably well on that,” Mr. Lot told journalists.

“But that too was affected by budgetary provisions. You know government has dwindling resources, but there is an issue there because development is not taking place fast in that area. And so the principal officers of the National Assembly have said that they don’t want that place because of the current security situation in the country.”

An ambitious plan by the FCTA to complete the lavish homes for the principal officers of the National Assembly, was already controversial, as the four lawmakers currently reside in houses constructed by the government, which they later bought for themselves under a contentious monetization policy.

Since the inception of the project in 2010, a minimum of N1.5 billion in appropriation have been made annually for the work. But the FCT minister said only a fraction of the amount was released to complete the project located at a new extension of Maitama district, called Goodluck Jonathan district.

The district is right behind the Lungi barracks in Abuja.

But despite the security, the lawmakers said they needed a safer location with the current situation in the country, and already one has been selected for them in the Three Arms Zone in the city centre.

The FCTA said the request has been granted with the approval of President Goodluck Jonathan, for the project to be started anew, this time within the Three Arms Zone, supposedly Nigeria’s most secure area, where the president himself lives.

“Though it is behind the army barracks, we cannot isolate them there, and government in its own wisdom has said that since they don’t want it, the authorities have decided to convert the buildings to guest houses and scale down the initial cost of the project. That is what we are doing now. We are scaling down the cost of the project to serve as guest houses to the principal officers of the National Assembly,” Mr. Lot said.

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johntousin: The four top leaders of the National Assembly have snubbed a set of government-provided homes that have already gulped more than a billion naira in construction, asking instead for new houses at a more secure location.


“Though it is behind the army barracks, we cannot isolate them there.... http://premiumtimesng.com/news/146647-billions-already-wasted-mark-tambuwal-two-deputies-reject-multibillion-naira-govt-homes.html

LOOL They are scared of living behind a Army Barracks and they called it unsecured. Whats safer than living around the military? Oooooh....I get it.... theyre scared that one day the khaki boys will get tired of their profligacy and they would be amongst the first casualties becuase they would be at arms reach, abi?

3 billion to build a house and yet later rejected, this amount is enough to build an estate 4d workers, in America some law makers sleep in office. Wot a sacrifice our law makers are really sacrificing on our behalve.

Wasted generation. A country that waste her resources any how that's what nigeria is. If those law makers cannot live there, they should not equally have it as their quest houses too.

-1 Billion plus to build 4 structures, and later rejected?
-What happened to where they have been staying since over 20yrs ago?
-What happened to the monthly accommodation allowance?

Now, they wanna turn those to guest houses, and start new ones afresh!

Okay o, keep spending the money!

The looting continues

this another form of bribery. Lord, help us to save ourself.

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