The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, has deemed the N800bn allocated to his ministry in the 2025 budget proposal insufficient to address the nation’s road infrastructure needs.
Speaking on Friday during a 2025 budget defence session with the House Committee on Works, Umahi, a former two-term governor of Ebonyi State, urged the committee to consider increasing the ministry’s budgetary allocation for the fiscal year.
“We plead with you to help us. N800bn cannot do anything for us. It cannot address our road needs and so we plead with you to help us,” Umahi said.
He appealed to the committee to allocate sufficient funds to the ministry to complete ongoing projects and initiate new ones across the country.
Umahi emphasized that the ministry’s plans to address the nation’s road infrastructure could not be realized with the current “meagre budget envelope.” He advocated for borrowing to meet the country’s infrastructure needs, describing it as a necessary move for the nation’s progress.
“When the nation is in recession, you have to borrow money and do infrastructure. That is how you come out of a recession. It is the infrastructure that is going to be a catalyst for economic activities and then this hunger we are talking about will be a thing of the past. The food sellers will be there, those doing sharp sand, those doing gravel and so on. Support Mr President and let’s borrow money and do this infrastructure so that Nigeria will be great again,” Umahi said.
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