FG Proposes N1.2billion in 2016 Budget to Complete Zik’s Mausoleum

The federal government has proposed a total of N1, 281,127,089 in its 2016 budget to complete and furnish the abandoned Zik’s mausoleum which is the burial site of Nigeria’s first indigenous president, the late  Nnamdi Azikiwe in Onitsha, Anambra State.

The mausoleum has reportedly remained in ruins for years now as works on it had stopped and as such, the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing has included to spend N1,143,575,058 in its 2016 budget, to complete the structure while N137, 552,031 would be used to furnish it.

The document containing the ministry’s budget proposal for the mausoleum and library complex was obtained from the internet webpage of the ministry of finance Monday in Abuja.

According to reports, the government of Anambra, Azikiwe’s home state had before now considered taking over the project from the federal government in view of its national significance and the iconic standing of Azikiwe.

The state governor, Willy Obiano, had repeatedly called on the federal government to show more commitment beyond what obtains to the project.

Works on the mausoleum which from the ministry’s description will have a library complex, was awarded in 1997 after Azikiwe died in 1996, but it has since remained unfinished.