When Senator Bala Mohammed was appointed Minister in April 2010, he told FCT residents that the issue of infrastructural development is one that is very dear to his heart and he promised that comprehensive development of the city in terms of basic infrastructure will be his key focus. The Minister spoke in glowing terms of how he would achieve this in both the city centre and the satellite towns.
But it wasn't long after the Minister settled to his new job that it dawned on him the enormity of the task of developing Abuja's' infrastructure. As other Nigerians trooped into the city in their thousands, demand for basic amenities like road networks, water supply, electricity and other infrastructure rose geometrically, while the supply of revenue for these projects remained static with the usual budgetary allocation and other vague sources of fund like the internally generated revenue.
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