Tinubu Asks House To Refund Airports Construction Cost To Kebbi, Zamfara

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has asked the House of Representatives to approve the refund of Twenty Four Billion,Six Hundred and Seventy Nine Million,Nine Hundred and Eighty Seven Thousand,Eight Hundred and Eighty One Naira,Ninty One Kobo (N24, 679,987,881.91) to Nasarawa and Kebbi states as cost of construction of airports in both states.

The President also asked the House to pass the Anti-doping bill in compliance with the World Anti-doping Agency as well as supplementary appropriation for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to cater for critical projects that were omitted from the 2024 Appropriation of FCT passed by the House in March.

These requests from the President were contained in three separate letters read by the Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu who presided over plenary.

According to the President who stated that the Federal Government had taken over the Nasarawa and Kebbi state Airports explained that item 3 of the second schedule to the 1999 Constitution as amended places aviation and the safety of aircraft squarely on the shoulders of the Federal Government under the exclusive legislative list.

On the Anti-doping bill, the President asked the parliament to speedily consider and pass the bill before the commencement of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France.

Oduyemi Odumade, Edited By Grace Namiji