The transformation agenda of the Senator Ibikunle Amosun-led administration in Ogun State appears to be yielding fruits going by the harvest of completed and ongoing projects in various parts of the state.

Some of the projects include the expansion of the 2.4 Kilometre Ita-Eko/Sokori/Totoro road into dual lane at a cost of N1.3bn and the 600-metre Ibara GRA/Onikolobo road to serve as a detour to the Panseke/Onikolobo road. Both projects have been completed.

The government has also awarded the contract for the construction of the 32km Sango/Ijoko-Agbado/Oke-Aro/Akute/Ojodu Abiodun road to Messrs Prado E. Mercedos, a Brazilian construction firm.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/06/ogun-awards-32km-sango-ijoko-agbado-road-to-brazilian-firm/

My concern is that, has anyone staying around Ijoko witness the new road construction?

I stay @ lambe and there's no sign of construction.

Why Brazilian firm?

I-B.:
Why Brazilian firm?

Their tender may have been the best.

tee bod: I stay @ lambe and there's no sign of construction.

It think awarding it is different from starting construction. my thought

tee bod: I stay @ lambe and there's no sign of construction.

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Their tender may have been the best.

i think the durability is more important. What if the tender is favorable to the government and the road is not durable?
I'm not castigating Brazilian firms, but not sure of the quality of their work.

April, 2013
Executive Chairman
Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission,
EFCC
5 Fomella Street, Off Adetokunbo
Ademola
Crescent
Wuse 11, Abuja
Dear Sir,
CALL FOR INVESTIGATION OF
ALLEGATIONS OF
ROAD CONTRACT FRAUD AGAINST
OGUN STATE
GOVERNMENT
The Coalition Against Corrupt
Leaders (CACOL)
is a group of civil-society,
community-based
and other non-governmenta l
organizations
with the objective of fighting
corruption and
corrupt persons by any means
possible at all
levels in Nigeria.
Our attention has been drawn to
a report in
the Nigerian Compass publication
of Monday,
08 April, 2013 (photocopies
attached)
detailing the allegations of fraud
being
perpetrated by the Ogun State
government
led by Governor Ibikunle Amosun
onroad
construction in the state.
According to the newspaper
report, the Ogun
State government in a memo,
entitled:
“Re:
Request for Information on
Capital Projects”,
received at the Office of the Clerk
of the Ogun
State House of Assembly, which
was signed
by the Permanent Secretary in the
Ministry of
Works and Infrastructure, ­
Department of
Planning, Research and Statistics,
Engineer
Ademolake K.A, had given details
of its total
contract commitments as N96
billion
(N96,016,704,18 7.58). Of the
sum, the
government claimed to have
made advance
payments of N18 billion
(N18,231,940,85 0.00)
to 14 contractors.
The government disclosed that it
awarded
the
Sagamu-Benin Express Junction/
Oba Erinwole
Junction Road to a contractor,
P.W. Nig. Ltd.,
for N8 billion
(N8,046,000.000 .00), out of
which N2 billion has been
released as
Advance Payment. The
government also
indicated that the length of the
roadis seven
kilometres and put the completion
period of
the contract at 15 months. The
start date of
the project was said to be 26th
November
2012 and the expected date of
completion is
26th February, 2014, whereas the
percentage
completion as at the date of the
memo,
according to the government, is
20.
This indicated that the
government would
spend a sum of N1.1 billion per
kilometre on
a
township road, whereas the
immediate past
administration, within the same
topography,
spent N46 million per kilometre
on the
dualisation of the Bobasuwa
junction of the
Ejinrin road –Mobalufon, with
median and
street lights.
Furthermore, the state
government said it
awarded the construction of
Ejirin/­
Folagbade/ Ibadan Road in Ijebu-
Ode, Ogun
State to China Civil Engineering
Construction
Company (CCECC), whereas the
federal
government has awarded the
construction of
this same federal road to the
same CCECC
following the request of the
Ijebus to
President Goodluck Jonathan
during his
campaign tour to Awujale of
Ijebuland.
The mind-boggling question is
how can the
CCECC enter into a contract with
the state
government on the road project
when it
already has a subsisting contract
with the
Federal Government on the same
road?
Some of the residents complained
that
despite the demolition of
hundreds of
building complexes, stores and
shops along
the Ejinrin road, leaving
thousands of the
people homeless, work has not
commenced
on the road in the last five
months, while It
has also been established that no
single
equipment has been moved to the
Oba
Erinwole Junction Road for which
the
government claimed it has paid
N2 billion to
the contractor.
It is worthy of note that the N18
billion
claimed to have been spent on the
road
projects was borrowed from
banks which
means the state government
would continue
to service the loan from the state
funds
plunging the hapless Ogun State
masses into
quagmire of socio-economic
enslavement .
OUR PRAYER
It is in consideration of the
negative impact
all
these arbitrariness and others yet
to be
exposed have on the lives of
ordinary Ogun
State citizens that we hereby urge
you to use
your good office to investigate
and expose
whosoever is the consultant (in-
house
engineer or external) that did the
tender bid
evaluation and recommended the
China Civil
Engineering Construction
Company for the
eventual award of construction of
federal
Ejinrin road.
Likewise, we urge you to
investigatethe
appropriateness or otherwise, of
rehabilitating a-seven kilometre
road with
over N8 billion, as we are
suspectingthe case
of contract inflation.
We urge you to also file
appropriate charges
against anyone found to have
abused his
office in this matter at the end of
investigation.
Yours in the war against
corruption
Debo Adeniran
Executive Chairman, CACOL