Group condemns proposed New Abuja City gate

[Mirror]

The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has described as a misplaced priority, the proposed new Abuja City Gate. CACOL in a statement made available to Saturday Mirror by its Executive Chairman, Debo Adeniran condemned the irrational appropriation of taxpayers' hard earned money to irrelevant project that possesses no economic potentials for the masses.

He urged the Federal Government to channel the N64billion proposed to construct the New Abuja City Gate into lifechanging projects that would dwarf the ever growing rate of poverty among the Nigerian masses.

He said, "It is very disheartening that the government of the day is so detached from the people. The recent move of the FCT Minister to construct a new gate where one is existing with a whooping N64 billion is the height of insensitivity on the part of the Federal Government. The questions begging for answer are: what has gone wrong with the current gate to warrant a new one?

Must we duplicate city gate at the expense of other meaningful projects that are begging for attention? "This is another misplaced priority by this administration. It is unfortunate that priority and such huge money could be devoted to a project that doesn't have any positive impact on the millions of Nigerians living in abject poverty.