The Senate Ad hoc Committee on Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Scheme on Tuesday summoned the contractors handling the Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja Road dualisation project. The project was awarded in 2006 at the cost of about N42bn to four contractors but was later reviewed to N116bn. The affected construction firms are: Dantata and Sawoe, Bulletin Construction, Reynolds Construction Company and Gitto. The committee also queried the Managing Director of the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, Mr. Gabriel Amuchi, over the allocation of N1.3bn as operational and labour cost out of the N4bn it got from the SURE-P programme for road maintenance and rehabilitation. Chairman of the ad hoc committee, Senator Abdul Ningi, lamented that facts before the panel suggested that FERMA had “turned the SURE-P money into Father Christmas by spending N1bn on labour cost in the name of paying 6,000 youths it was said to have engaged as direct labourers.” Which way Nigeria!! Our SURE-P money is now used for Christmas Bonanza.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:52:12 +0000
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