The Nigerian Senate has set up a seven-man ad-hoc Committee to investigate the Centenary City Project in order to ascertain the factors impeding its completion.
The Senate adopted this following a motion sponsored by Senator Yisa Ashiru for alleged irregularities surrounding the $18.72billion Centenary City project.
The Centenary City project which began 10 years ago under the Goodluck Ebele Jonathan administration
has stalled for far too long.
Speaking on the matter, Senator Ali Ndume argued that if the project is revived, it will boost economic revival in Abuja and the country at large.
Senator Ndume also made his reservations known on the matter of constituting an ad-hoc committee to probe the project. He opined that the senate should coopt standing committees instead of constituting ad-hoc committees.
The Upper Chamber also urged Federal Government to Prioritize Abuja Centenary City Project for economic revival.
Senator Isah Jibrin while speaking during the plenary opined that the Federal Government should hand over the Centenary City Project to the private sector while stating that the Federal Government has far more pressing issues to tackle at the moment than the Centenary City especially with the current economic state in the country.
After deliberations, Senate President, Godswill Akpabio named the Deputy Senate President, Barau Jibrin as the chairman of the committee, and charged them to investigate the reasons why 10 years after it was approved, the Abuja Centenary City Project has stalled.
The committee is expected to report its findings in four weeks.
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