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EXPLOSIVE: LIST OF ABANDONED NDDC PROJECTS IN ABIA STATE, CONSTRUCTION FIRMS AND AMOUNT PAID.

Afnews Editor

Dec 19, 2019

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How Indigenous Contractors are Ripping off Abia (1)

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It is no longer news that the newly appointed Acting Managing Director of NDDC, Dr Joi Nuneih, recently visited Abia State and handed a dossier of NDDC projects to the Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, who was visibly alarmed to see the number of projects and their different statuses with a good number of them marked as either "completed", has reached certain levels of completion, or "ongoing" even when the reverse is the case for most of them.

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To ascertain the reality of things on ground with a view to recommending necessary action against any failing contractor, the Governor swiftly set up a committee to verify the true and current statuses of these projects. The committee chaired by Bishop Sunday Onuoha also has Elder Richard Nwala as Secretary, Engr Uzo Nwankwo, Mr Gabriel Aguwa Paul and Chief Jude Ndukwe as members.

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Some of the highlights of their findings so far include projects marked on NDDC list as completed but no sign that any work was done on such sites. The contractors simply "chopped' the money and zoomed off, or so it seems, leaving the benefitting communities in particular and the state in general in a state of near-perpetual underdevelopment. More worrisome is the fact that most of the contractors handling these projects as awarded by NDDC are actually indigenes of the localities affected greatly by the non performance of the cotractors.

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For example, the contractor awarded the construction of Avo Road in Afaraukwu, Umuahia North LGA, did absolutely nothing on the road even though it is marked on NDDC list as having been 57% completed and "ongoing" despite the fact that there is no iota of sign of the presence of a contractor or work going on, is an indigene of the same community, Afaraukwu. A sad twist to it all is that the man died recently and was buried on the 13th of December, 2019. A foremost leader in the community had been mounting pressure on Abia State government to help them work on the road for the purpose of the demised contractor's burial, the same road he was awarded to construct but did nothing and went ahead to register it as 57% completed and "ongoing".

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That is just one example of how indigenous contractors are ripping our state off through the NDDC. Several others abound. Findings from Bende, which will be highlighted in subsequent part of this series will numb readers. Even ancestors are being accused for the massive NDDC project fraud in a particular community in Bende LGA.

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We trust the committee to continue to do its job excellently while NDDC management and government acts decisively on their findings after they must have been submitted.

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LIST OF SOME NDDC ROAD PROJECTS IN ABIA STATE
(MOSTLY THOSE AWARDED FROM 2015 TO DATE)

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Description, Contractor, Location, LGA, Date of Award, Contract Sum.

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*In part 2 we will share additional projects list including the over N350m purportedly spent on Enyimba Stadium score board.

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Written By: John Okiyi Kalu

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