Umahi Orders Arrest of Contractor for Poor Road Project

Fri, Apr 21, 2017 | By publisher


Politics


GOVERNOR David Umahi of Ebonyi State has ordered the arrest of the contractor handling Okposi-Umuoghara- Ebiaji Road in Ezza North Local Government Area for doing poor work as against government specifications after collecting N200 million mobilisation fee.

Umahi, who gave the order while inspecting the road at Okposi-Umuoghara,also  directed that Solomon Eze, a Ministry of Works official, be suspended for two months  for lack of proper supervision of the project.

An angry Umahi told Jonathan Bawada, his ADC, to ensure that the two officials of the company who were on the ground be handed over to police for prosecution.

He described the work of Tonando Nigeria Ltd., the contracting firm, as very deceitful and fraudulent, warning that government would not take it lightly with any contractor playing  on the intelligence of the state government.

In an interview, Fidelis Nweze, the state commissioner for Works and Transport, said the company did less than two kilometres of earthwork with poor drainage.

Nweze said: “We frown so much at that act because the contractor is supposed to have achieved a minimum 40 percent of that job. What we saw on ground was less than 10 percent of the job.

“We are not happy about it. And on that note, we have suspended the engineer supervising the job from the ministry for two months for not briefing the ministry and government accordingly.

“We we will be approaching the court for justice.”

—  May 1, 2017 @ 01:00 GMT


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