Umahi threatens contract termination over delay in Lokoja-Benin road

The Federal government has announced plans to terminate contracts of contractors carrying out the reconstruction, rehabilitation of the Lokoja-Benin road for delaying the contracts and not showing commitment to the plight of the people.

The Minister of Works, Senator (Engr) David Umahi, disclosed this at the stakeholders engagement meeting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom on 29 June, 2024, as contained in statement released by the Ministry.

The Minister, while lamenting over the attitude of some unpatriotic expatriate contractors in the country warned that any contractor who continues to behave in that way will have his contract terminated.
While inspecting projects sites along Calabar -Itu road on his way to Cross River State from Uyo, Umahi was visibly worried about the agony Nigerians go through over the poor condition of the road.

He called on Julius Berger to return to the project site immediately to avoid sanctions from the ministry.
“We are going to do everything to support local contractors, we are going to encourage them, build them so that they can compete with the expatriate contractors, but more pains no more gains”, he said.

The Minister thanked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his desire to alleviate suffering of the Nigerian people by carrying out massive infrastructural rehabilitation in the country.