Presidency to access Umahi’s performance on road development

The Special Adviser to the President on Policy and Coordination, Hajiya Hadiza Bala Usman has announced that in coming week she and her team will be accessing the performance of the Minister of Works, Sen (Engr) David Umahi on road infrastructure development.

Usman disclosed this when she led her team to visit the Minister in his office on Friday, to to formally introduce her team, who will be engaging with the Ministry’s officials by way of monitoring its performance within the 1st and 2nd quarters of 2024.
The Special Adviser revealed that she and her team were at the Minister’s office also to seek for better ways of enhancing and fast -tracking works on Nigeria roads geared toward the actualisation of the Renewed Hope Deliverables.

Umahi, while welcoming the monitoring team took them through the nitty-gritty of the services being rendered by the Ministry to the public and the processes involved before the services become visible and appreciable by the public. These include initiating the project, designing, costing, bidding and other processes.
The Minister, according to the statement released by the Ministry said, road is a critical infrastructure that cannot be over-looked, as every strata of human beings make use of it, both the rich and the poor, young and old etc.

He thanked Mr President for making road infrastructure a priority amongst the eight priority areas of Renewed Hope Agenda of President Ahmed Bola Tinubu, which is to enhance infrastructure and transportation as enablers of growth.