Buhari not responsible for Infrastructure Deficit - Lai Mohhamed

Minister of Informationa and Culture Lai Mohammed has said that the administration was investing massively on roads, power, housing, Railway and other critical infrastructure, not leaving out the social well being of the citizens. He, however, observed that because of the level of decay and abandonment of the infrastructure by the previous administration, the efforts of government might not manifest immediately.
Mohammed said that the government was working on the 220-kilometre Enugu to Port Harbour express way as well as other major road networks in the South East. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), he said that work was ongoing on the Kano to Maiduguri road and the Lagos Ibadan express way to mention but a few. “We do not get to the situation where we get into overnight and we should not expect to get out of it overnight “If you look at what the government inherited and where we are today it is clear that the government has remained focused and the solutions proferred to our challenges are working. “When we came in, the economy was over dependent on oil and today the recovery is being driven by agriculture, mining creative industry and manufacturing which means our diversification programme is working. “It has never happened in the history of the country that a government will spend N1.2 trillion in capital expenditure like the Administration did and we are seeing the positive results have helped us to get out of recession.” he said The minister further explained that: "in 2015 the past administration spent only N18 billion on roads but in 2016/2017 circle this government spent N260 billion on roads and bridges. “The last administration spent only N5 billion on power, this administration has spent over N90 billion on power: In housing the last administration spent N8 billion while we have spent N70 billio.” The minister said that many contractors had been recalled to the roads projects they abandoned during the previous administration resulting in creating of over 17000 direct jobs and 15000 indirect jobs from roads.
On power, the minister said that when the administration came in May 2015, only 2690 megawatts was generated but today the country is generating over 7000 megawatts.