Senate To Probe Airport Renovations

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Aviation, Senator Hope Uzodimma, yesterday said his committee would carry out audit of the renovated airports.
Uzodimma wondered why the Ministry Aviation included some projects contained in the first phase of the airport remodeling exercise when the work was about 99 per cent completed.
He stated this when the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, appeared before the Aviation Committee for budget defence.
Amaechi also said his ministry will conduct audit of the renovated airports.
Uzodinma said, “I can see some phase one projects. For phase two which is about 75 per cent competed. I still see a lot of projects under it in your budget.
“Since there was no approval for phase three, we asked you not to sign agreement. But I learnt that you had signed some agreements and backdated it.
“We are going to audit the projects. We are going to support the minister to carry out comprehensive audit. So that we check whether if you have exposed government to the over N300billion debt profile for aviation before us.
“We have been begging you for the past six years to supply names of consultants supervising your projects but you didn’t supply. Let us have engineering design so that we will be able to compare the cost, but you didn’t give us.”