Lagos Govt Unveils New Secretariat Annex

The Lagos State Government has unveiled plans to build a new ultra-modern secretariat annex at the public car park, Alausa, Ikeja, Southwest Nigeria. The design for the new secretariat is ready, P.M.NEWS can confirm.

Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Dr. Kadri Hamzat disclosed this on Tuesday during the ministerial news conference of the ministry, saying that the secretariat would be a multi-agency building at the vast open space housing a number of offices or office annexes and the public car park.

According to the Commissioner, the building would be a three- in- one edifice that would be connected together with pedestrian inter- links with the structure in the middle having eight floors while the adjoining two structures would have five floors each.

Hamzat further stated that the building would provide inter- ministry networking, improve delivery of service and drastically reduce the huge expenses on rented office accommodation for agencies of the state government, stressing that the building would also provide parking spaces for 600 cars as two of its floors would be reserved for park.

He said the building would serve as state secretariat annex and would be allocated to all ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) that were not within the main secretariat.

The commissioner added that the new annex project “has been awarded to Palmyra Construction Company. The contractor is expected to move to the site because there was provision for the project in the 2012 budget.”

Also, the commissioner has appealed to the Federal Government to reimburse the state government the N59 billion it has spent on the rehabilitation of some Federal Government roads in the state.

Hamzat expressed the state government’s desire to continue to provide more infrastructural projects for the benefits of the people, while he, however, debunked claims by some people that the state government was concentrating all its attention on the construction and rehabilitation of roads on the Lekki / Ajah axis of the state.

He added that government had embarked on the construction and rehabilitation of roads in all the local government areas of the state.

The Commissioner listed the number of road projects that were under construction in each of the local government, stressing that in Alimosho local government, there were 26 on- going projects, 37 completed projects while the contracts for eight new projects had just been awarded.

Hamzat reiterated the commitment of the state government to infrastructural renewal and development which he said, was an important weapon for fighting poverty in the state, adding that the government’s partnership with the private sector in the construction of high capacity roads was already yielding positive results.

—Kazeem Ugbodaga