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The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved 2018 draft budget proposal, Road Trust Fund (RTF) and the construction of 14-kilometre 330KVA transmission line to evacuate power from Azura power plant in Edo.

These were the decisions taken by the council at its meeting held on Thursday in Abuja.

The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Mr Udoma Udo Udoma, disclosed this when he briefed State House correspondents alongside the Ministers of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola and that of Finance, Kemi Adeosun.

Udoma, who declined to disclose the actual figure of the approved 2018 draft budget, said that President Muhammadu Buhari would soon forward the document to the National Assembly for final approval.

“The Federal Executive Council, today, approved a draft 2018 budget proposals.

“So we will be liaising with the National Assembly to agree with the date in which the president will formally submit the budget to them.

“It is the president prerogative to submit the budget, submit the proposals and give the details.

“I will be operating above my brief if I do that, the constitution gives that authority to the president.

“We did promise that the budget will be ready in October.

The Minister of Finance said that the council approved the establishment of Road Trust Fund (RTF) structure.

According to her, the RTF structure is a PPP initiative that will allow the private sector to get involved in road construction in exchange for tax credit.

“What is unique about the scheme is that it is building on an existing scheme that avails tax credit, but is one company per road and we have found that only two companies have been able to take advantage of it.

“The tax will be recovered over a three-year period. We expect this to mobilize significant capital into road provision across the country.

“The ministry of works will be approving the design and the cost of those roads.

“The Bureau for Public Procurement (BPP) will also provide certificates of no objection to make sure that the costs are reasonable, ministry of works will supervise.

“What we expect is significant road delivery, especially in areas, for example industrial clusters, affected by very bad roads.

“We expect the impact on revenues to be neutral because we are tightening our tax code. But, we still put in a limit that no company can apply and use more than 50 per cent of the tax within a year for this scheme.”

According to the minister, with the RTF structure the government is trying to widen the pool of funds for road construction in the country.

Fashola said the council approved the construction of 14 kilometres transmission line for the Distribution Company of Nigeria to evacuate the Azura power plant in Edo at the cost of N796.6 million.

He said Azura power plant would be ready in May 2018, while the construction project would be completed within the next seven months.

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