The minister of power, works and housing, Babatunde Fashola, has undertaken an extensive inspection tour of on-going infrastructure projects in the north east zone, saying the rapid progress being made on the projects and the employment opportunities created in the process were a manifestation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s determination to achieve economic recovery and create jobs through housing, roads and general infrastructural development.
About 33 of such projects are ongoing across the country, according to a statement issued Tuesday by Hakeem Bello, the minister’s special adviser on communications.
Fashola, who spoke in Taraba and other states in the course of the four day tour, told workers at the site of the Taraba State’s national housing programme that the whole idea behind the road and housing development projects going on across the country was to create jobs for the teeming unemployed youth, get those who had lost their jobs back to work and energize the economy.
An excited worker, Rilwan Adamu, who answered all the questions at the site of the National Housing Programme in Jalingo, Taraba State, praised the government for providing jobs for them.
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