NDDC Disowns College’s Renovation Project

The management of the
Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC) has disowned any contract award on the renovation of classroom blocks at the Government Technical College, Abak in Akwa Ibom State.
The NDDc Acting Managing Director, Mrs Ibim Semenatari who stated this on a visit to the school yesterday, explained that any contract awarded by the commission usually carries NDDC sign post at the site.
The Akwa Ibom Government had complained that the contract was abandoned.
The state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr Aniekan Umanah, took the Senate Committee on NDDC and Amnesty Programme to the institution to show them the abandoned classroom blocks.
The commissioner alleged that the commission came into the school and removed the roof of four classroom blocks leaving the students to suffer in the rain and under the scorching sun.
Umanah alleged that the contract was abandoned a year ago and that the delicate science facilities and computer sets were damaged during the process of transferring them.
But the NDDC boss revealed Saturday that the contract was not listed in the records of the commission.
Reacting, the chairman of Senate Committee on NDDC and Amnesty Programme, Sen. Peter Nwaoboshi, cautioned the people of Niger Delta to beware of fake contract letters purportedly issued by NDDC.
At the inspection of the two kilometer Edienne Abak-Ikot Ekan Road, the committee expressed dissatisfaction with the level of work done since 2012 when the contract was awarded.
Nwaoboshi directed the contractor to return to site immediately or refund the mobisliation of N48 million earlier collected from NDDC.
The committee chairman who was baffled at the contract sum of the project, put at N248 million and the level of work done said, “I am really surprised. I am disappointed”.

Chris Oluoh