The Minister of Public Works, Dave Umahi, on Friday threatened to terminate the multi-billion naira reconstruction of Benin/Sapele and Ologbo Street if the contractors, Levant Development Firm, failed to satisfy the scope and specification of the work.
The minister expressed his dissatisfaction with the work and subsequently directed the ministry's supervising engineers to difficulty a warning letter to the contractors on Monday. In the event that they didn’t do the precise job after fourteen days, he would personally finish the job.
Umahi, who’s on an inspection tour of works on federal roads in Edo, acknowledged that contractors within the nation have been enjoying politics with Nigerians, warning that he wouldn’t tolerate this beneath his watch.
He mentioned: “Give them a warning letter to begin everlasting work by Monday and in the event that they haven't began by Monday, give them fourteen days' discover. We’ve paid billions of naira for this job and we’ve got seen that many contractors on this nation are solely enjoying politics with us and we’ve got highlighted this on a number of events.
“We pays mobilization costs to a contractor, we are going to by no means pay variation on the worth for that quantity we paid and that’s the downside with Levant and after 14 days discover interval, if they don’t hold to the time period of the settlement Come, I'm coming to give up the job myself.
“You may't do this sort of work in your nation, it may solely occur in Africa. You may't take our cash and misbehave like this. It's a fantastic disgrace, have a look at how individuals are struggling in every single place and we must always fortunately clap for you. I've had over 10 encounters with them on this job. If one thing goes fallacious, they name the president,” he added.
The minister proceeded to examine the Benin, Ekpoma Auchi and Abuja Expressway.
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