… Urban Mass Transportation, Food May Take Largest Portions
Nyesom Wike, the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, has said that the N5 billion allocated to the FCT to cushion the effect of the fuel subsidy removal will be primarily used to provide urban mass transportation and food to residents.
Wike, however, noted that a final decision regarding how the money will be shared has yet to be reached.
Wike disclosed this during a press briefing in Abuja, following a closed-door meeting with contractors responsible for various projects in the FCT.
“We are yet to decide on what to do with the ₦2billion palliative. We have not chosen any area yet. Are we going to concentrate on food, we are thinking that the issue of transportation is very very important, particularly the urban mass transit.
“People would like to have easy transportation to go to where they want to go, and if you give them rice and they eat the rice today, what about transportation tomorrow?
“So, we have not come up with what actually we are going to use the money for, but I believe food support and transportation is very key,” Wike said.
