29 November 2007
Posted to the web 29 November 2007
Christopher Isiguzo
Abakaliki
Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory, (FCT) Senator Anthony Agbo has urged President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to prioritize the power and road sectors rather than carrying his entire seven-point agenda at a time in the 2008 appropriation.
He also criticized the budget profile of about twenty billion dollars as totally insufficient.
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The lawmaker stated that the power and road sectors were very crucial to the realization of the Vision 2020, adding that if the sectors were properly attended to in the 2008 budget, other sectors could follow suit in subsequent budgets of the present administration. He said that the nation could have had more than that but for the near total dependence on crude oil . The Senator pointed out that seventy billion naira set aside for the roads across the country is a far cry from what is needed, even to renovate the terrible roads in the South-east geo-political zone alone. Full Story
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