The House of Representatives has fumed at the revelation that no staff of CGC Nigeria Ltd, the contractor handling the Lagos-Badagry Expressway, was on site when its members visited the project yesterday.
Africa Today News, New York reports that the House of Representatives Committee on Works, led by its Chairman, Alhaji Abubakar Kabir, was on an oversight inspection tour of Agbara and Seme section of Badagry Expressway on Wednesday.
The lawmakers expressed displeasure over the lack of commitment of the contractor and vowed to invite the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, and the contractor over the slow pace of work on the project.
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The chairman said it was disheartening that no single expatriate from CGC was on ground to receive the lawmakers to give explanations on construction works.
‘I am highly disappointed with CGC, there is no way, that members of the House of Representatives coming here to Lagos and none of thier expatriates are here.
‘We have the project worth N63 billion, this is to show CGC are not taking this project serious at all, this is number one.
‘Secondly, the issue of the work we have seen here and the work on the paper, to me, this project is not commensurate with what have been paid,’ he said.
According to Kabir, no mathematical or scientific analysis could generate magical formulas to equate funding to actual construction visible and percentages of the level of completion of the projects.
‘And you said we have reached about 14.6 percent completion, even on the average, you have only reached about four percent and the money we have paid to them (CGC) now is about N6.7 billion.
“N2.2 billion 15 percent mobilsation, N4.5 billion SUKUK money, and that SUKUK money, I don’t understand, there is a problem’ he said.
The chairman said that SUKUK funds was investors’ money and it was dangerous to allow inefficiency or mismanagement, adding that, there are no commensurate construction on ground.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK