Umahi,who expressed dissatisfaction with the work, subsequently ordered the ministry’s supervising engineers to issue a warning letter to the contractors on Monday and after 14 days should they fail to do the right job. He will personally terminate the job.
The Minister,who was on an inspection tour of works done on federal roads was received by officials of the Federal Ministry Works in Benin and that of Edo State Ministry of Road and Bridges.
The former Governor of Ebonyi State after inspecting the Benin –Ologbo axis, lamented that contractors in the country are playing politics with Nigerians and warned that he would not tolerate such under his watch.
He ordered, “By Monday givethem a warning letter to start permanent work and if Monday they didn’t start give 14 days’ notice of termination. We paid multi-billion for this job and we have seen that a lot of contractors in this country are just playing politics with us and we have emphasised on this severally.
“We will pay mobilization fee to a contractor, we will never pay variation on price (VOP) for that amount we have paid and that is the problem with Levant and after 14 days of notice of termination I come and terminate the job myself.
“You cannot do this kind of job in your country, it can only happen in Africa. You can’t collect our money and be misbehaving like this. It is a big shame, look at how people are suffering everywhere and we should be happy clapping for you?. I have had more than 10 meetings with them on this Job. If anything goes wrong they will be calling the President.” He said.
