The Benue House of Assembly\u2019s Standing Committee on Water
\nand Environment has urged the state government to pay mobilisation fees to
\nerosion project contractors in Gboko Local Government Area (LGA).<\/p>\n
The committee\u2019s Chairman, Mr Godwin Akaan, made the appeal
\non Wednesday during the committee\u2019s oversight functions to projects in the
\nGboko and Tarka LGAs.<\/p>\n
He said the payment would help to ease ecological problems
\nin the area.<\/p>\n
\u201cGovernment\u2019s inability to pay mobilisation fees to the
\ncontractors has made the residents in Gboko to face erosion challenges,\u2019\u2019 the
\nlegislator said.<\/p>\n
He, therefore, urged the state government to pay up the fees
\nto facilitate an early take-off of the projects.<\/p>\n
Akaan also called on the General Manager, Benue State
\nSanitation and Environmental Agency, Mr Ediga Akpa, to immediately deploy men
\nto clean up Gboko town.<\/p>\n
He blamed the water shortage in Tarka on poor access roads
\nlinking Wannune to the Earth Dam, situated about five kilometres out of the
\ntown.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Ministry of Works and Housing has to collaborate with
\nthe Ministry of Water Resources to provide good water to the residents of Tarka
\nLGA,\u2019\u2019 Akaan said.<\/p>\n
The chairman advised the contractor handling the Wannune
\nearth dam to expedite work on the project to enable the people have potable
\nwater.<\/p>\n
Mr Friday Adodo, manager of A.G.B Nigeria Ltd., told the
\nNews Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the site, that the Ministry of Water Resources
\nwas responsible for the delay in completing the work.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ministry was not up to date with payments. Out of N136
\nmillion that was the total contract sum, the ministry has so far paid N129
\nmillion, leaving the balance of N7 million unpaid,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Adodo explained that the entire contract would be given an
\nupward review to cover extra costs, saying the review would cost an additional
\nN15 million.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is owing to the delay in the payment of the total
\ncontract sum which has resulted to delays in contract execution,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Benue House of Assembly\u2019s Standing Committee on Water and Environment has urged the state government to pay mobilisation fees to erosion project contractors in Gboko Local Government Area (LGA). The committee\u2019s Chairman, Mr Godwin Akaan, made the appeal on Wednesday during the committee\u2019s oversight functions to projects in the Gboko and Tarka LGAs. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}