FG to Relocate Federal Ministries and Agencies Outside Abuja City
The Federal government on Wednesday declared that some federal ministries, departments, and agencies would be relocated from Abuja city to Kyami District in order to decongest the city-centre.
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Muhammed, told State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja that the council had approved N60.8 billion for the provision of engineering infrastructure in the district.
“The Centenary City is also directly opposite this place and because of the increase in population; we need to do something very quickly.
“And the Federal Government is doing this directly as per what we have always done as FCT as a Federal Government project to provide for the development of the city.
“Again, in this district, we are moving some of the ministries and departments to that area because we envisage that in tandem with city growth – city growth is always dynamic – and that of course as the population is increasing and the city centre is increasingly moving as per the master plan from the central business district to the centre of the city where you have the city gate and the centenary city, we need to provide for some federal ministries and organisations.“
He said the master plan and land usage of the FCT have been changed so as to accommodate ministries and departments in the new districts and that a local company would be in charge of the proect.
