 The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, says the federal government is proposing to execute 7 trillion-dollar on-road construction in 854 highways across the six geopolitical zones in the country in its 2022 budget proposal. Fashola said this while defending his ministry's 2022 budget proposal before the House of Representatives Committee on Works and Housing in Abuja. He said priority will be on road projects and bridges leading to parts and major agricultural hubs across the country, which attracts heavy-duty vehicles, carrying goods and machineries to the zones. Fashola said most of these projects will be financed through the Presidential Infrastructure Fund, Road Infrastructure Development and Refurbishment Investment Tax Credit Scheme, the Sovereign Skunk Fund and multilateral loans among others. The number of projects are increasing and all of us must find a way to come to a consensus because our revenues are not increasing at the same exponential rate. And what we are seeing every year, and I will come to that point in answering the indigenous people, is that we are propelled for a very token amount for a project of certain quantums. And then once the award is done, the question of financing becomes a challenge. But with inflation and everything, there must come a time when we can see, and I think that time is now, Mr. Chairman and Honourable Members, enough of new routes and new projects. Let us concentrate our limited resources to complete or progress some of what we have started. I therefore call on the agencies present here to come up with creative and innovative ways to generate income and do not entirely depend on budgetary allocation from the federal government. The House of Representatives will provide you with all the legislative support you may need to attain your financial independence.