Delta PDP Elders Drag Clark To EFCC Over Failed Contracts A FACTION of Delta State Elders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Friday lodged a petition against former Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark and a company associated with him - Panama Construction Company at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over their alleged failure to execute contracts worth billions of naira. After leading a peaceful protest of the group to EFCC, Chief Alex Ikpeazu (State Secretary) dropped the petition at the Commission, highlighting the various contracts abandoned by Chief Clark’s company after collecting the necessary mobilization fee from the State government. In the petition dated June 22, 2013 and addressed to the Chairman of the Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Larmode, the petitioners alleged that “Panama Construction Company, located at 5 Swamp Road Warri and owned by Chief Edwin Clark characteristically abandoned the N1.4 billion Reclamation/Shore Protection job at Amazama, rivers State given to it by the Ministry of Niger Delta even though they have been heavily mobilized to the tune of N215 m on December 31, 2011.” He also said: “Similarly, Panama Construction Ltd, was awarded a 10.3km Aladja-Isaba Road Project in Delta State in 2006 for N595 million and surprisingly seven years after, no meaningful job has been done and as at June 3, 2013, Chief Clark is asking for further variation to drag the value of the project he has since abandoned to over N1 billion. “In one of his recent letters to Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, Chief Clark raised sentiment about similar projects abandoned by other discredited Delta leaders, who succeeded in blackmailing the government to abnormally inflate the values of their contracts to over N1billion.”
Posted on: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 22:40:31 +0000
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