By Daniel Tyokua
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Transportation Secretariat has expressed displeasure over abandoned contract of Nyanya bus terminal by the contractors.
The Mandate Secretary, FCT transportation secretariat, Zakari Angulu Dobi who visited the project site at the weekend, said all the contractors must justify the chunk amount they had collected or face revocation of their contracts.
“I am not happy with the level of work looking at what government has spent on this project, we will meet to get more clarification.
“We will go back and look at the evaluation because so much money has been paid; based on what I saw on the site and what is contained in the file, we need to know why the contractors are not on site having received such amount of money.
“I am also made to understand that Transport Secretariat is not the one directly supervising the project.
“That means that the Secretariat will meet with the FCDA department of Public Building, who is saddled with the responsibility of supervising the project, to tell us how they arrived at the valuation, the money that have been paid and why silence on site by contractors, and what we can do, together, to complete the project.
“If I am not too comfortable with the clarifications, the Public Building and Transportation Secretariat will, again, visit the site with journalists”, he said.
Asked if heads would roll if he is not satisfied with the clarifications, Dobi responded: “Very well, why not! First is to meet with Public Building Department, second is to meet with the contractors.
“For heads to roll is simply for the contractors to do the proper thing. If they agree to go back to site and do the proper thing based on what they collected from government, fine, but if they don’t, definitely heads will roll”.
Dobi while also inspecting temporary motor parks across the Federal Capital City, regretted that many taxi drivers were refusing to use the parks, noting that the only way to tackle the problem was to reintroduce the taskforce to enforce compliance.
