The
Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Dr. Steve Oru, has threatened to
revoke the contracts for two of the nine skill acquisition centres in
the Niger Delta over poor and delayed contract execution.
The two contracts are the Skill
Acquisition Centre in Otuke, in the Ogbia Local Government Area of
Bayelsa State and the one for Ibeno in Akwa Ibom State awarded for
N3.4bn.
The companies involved in the execution
of the contract for the two centres are Stegis International Agencies
Nigeria Limited, Salem Cat Limited, Enorasol International Limited,
Ogbosite International Limited, El-Hanen Ventures Limited, Verity
Concept Limited and Y.S. Associates Limited
The Otuoke Centre is expected to be a
centre for the training of youths in oil and gas, maritime studies,
Information and Communication Technology and how to assemble ipad and
mobile telephones on completion.
The minister summoned the contracting
firms to his office and lambasted them for shoddy execution of the
contracts, which he said lacked the appropriate supervision.
He told the two contractors that the
level and the quality of job done on the centres was too poor to be
acceptable to the Federal Government.
He therefore issued a two-month
ultimatum to the contractor handling the Otuoke Centre and a six-month
period of grace to the firm handling the Ibeno Centre to complete the
projects or face the wrath of the government.
He said, “The impression we had before
the visit were of Otuoke being ready for commissioning by the President
at any given date and that this would be followed by the commissioning
of Ibeno.
“But contrary to what we had on paper in
the office here when I was being briefed, we were in a state of shock
by what we saw first at Otuoke, which we thought was already fully
completed.
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