The FG has approved a memo for the revision of the contract
cost for a 22km section of the 100km Enugu-Onitsha highway.
The Minister for Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has
said that the Federal Executive Council (FEC), has approved a memo for the
revision of the contract cost for a 22km section of the 100km Enugu-Onitsha
highway.
The revised section of the road which is under contract to Niger
Construction Company had a budgetary increase of N8.649 billion.
This disclosure was made
by Fashola while addressing State House Correspondents after the weekly Federal
Executive Council meeting.
Fashola in his statement
said that the variation was to take care of the payment for change of pavement
surface, wearing cost to increase the thickness, utilize modified bitumen and
also strengthen the shoulders and some bridge works.
What
the Minister of Works and Housing is saying
The
Minister in his statement said, ‘’The
Federal Ministry of Works and Housing presented one memorandum to the council
and which was for the revised estimate total cost of our project on the
Enugu-Onitsha highway and it was to add the sum of N8.649 billion to the
section under contract to Niger Construction which
is a 22 km section of the 100 km road so that we can expedite the conclusion of
work there.
‘’The variation was to cater for the payment of change of pavement
surface, the binder cost and the wearing cost to increase the thickness, to
utilize modified bitumen and also to strengthen the shoulders and some bridge
works. So the council approved this variation of N8.649 billion in favour of
Niger Construction Company.’’
This would come as welcome relief to motorists plying that route,
as the reconstruction and rehabilitation project which had commenced in 2009
has been marred by several setbacks and delays.
Hopefully, this will encourage contractors to the project to speed
up work on the road.
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