The Project Manager of a Chinese civil engineering and construction company, Etim Abak, on Monday told the Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory that former President Olusegun Obasanjo awarded the Abuja Rail Project in 2007 without an engineering design or a Memorandum of Understanding.

The Minister of FCT and current governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, allegedly signed the $841.645,898m contract based on an uncalculated estimate.

The committee was also told that the contract, which was for 60.67-kilometre rail project, was inflated by $10m per km and that the length was later reduced to 45km without refund of the cost for the 15.67 km that was dropped off from the project.

The Senate committee, led by Dino Melaye, who were at the site of the project to carry out oversight functions, therefore, demanded the refund of $195,878,296.74 being the amount for the 15.67km that was cut out, from the Chinese firm handling the project.

Abak told senators that the contract was signed by the then FCT minister without design and MoU, and that it was carried out based on conceptual design.

Abak said, “The contract was awarded based on conceptual design and estimates were not properly done. There was no formal design submitted and rail bridges and crossover bridges were not captured in the contract.”

Melaye said his findings revealed that the rail project was inflated by over $10m per km and wondered why such an act was perpetrated by the handlers of the project.

The senator added that the contract sum was $841.645,898m and that the project completion period was 48 months while the scope of work was 60.67km standard gauge, with double railway tracks and associated permanent way within the FCT.

He wondered why the 60.67km project was later reduced to 45. 245km without reduction in its cost.

He said, “Now, you have reduced the length of the standard gauge from 60.67km to 45.245km, meanwhile, there is no concomitant reduction if you juxtapose the length in kilometres and the reduction in terms of the cost.

“If we are to spend $841m for 60.67km and now you have reduced to 45.245km and the only reduction in terms of monetary value is from $841.6m to $823m and with a reduction of just about $17m, that to me is not commensurate to the reduction in terms of length.

“The Federal Government has so far invested N31.5bn and another N7.6bn from the SURE-P fund and if you put these together, we have altogether N39.1bn invested in the rail project, leaving the balance of N113. 233,155.32.

“The N3bn proposed in the 2016 national budget for the FCT was for the rail project. If you look at this, I would want to say that I did a personal research and looked at rail construction of the same specifics, of the same technology across the globe and one cannot but complain that the cost of railway project in Nigeria is on a very high side.”

He wondered why it was costing the Federal Government so much to construct a railway of just 45 km unlike the construction of the same specifics across the globe.

He questioned the rationale behind the government’s loan of $500m from Exim Bank of China for the project, saying that the money which the Federal Government had so far injected into the project was enough to execute the entire project.

He said, “From my own calculation, in fact, from my comparison with other rail projects across the world, the Federal Government investment in this project is enough to execute the project without taking a loan as high as $500m from China.

“From our research and it’s very simple, the world is now a global village. As you are sitting here now, on your phone you can google, even in India and Egypt.

“Fortunately, one of those projects in Zambia was also done by this same company, CCE. We have six countries and the average cost per km, none is above $4m per km. Why is the Nigerian project costing $13.8m approximately $14m?”


Source : http://www.punchng.com/obasanjo-awarded-841-6m-rail-project-without-mou-chinese-firm/

Chai. i don the tell una since, all this yams you people are sharing there is God o, there is God o.

OBJ :DOBJ_ dz man Chop us taya! Operation Feed the Nation(OFN) turn Ota farm..

LRNZH:
OBJ?

Yes it's OBJ. come and say something ! Or you want to brush it off because it's not jona? Lol..... El Rufai been forming holy whereas he was worse off when he handled FCT. I DE WAIT FOR YOU OGA.

Nobody wants to speak because it's Obj. He is certainly immuned. He is the greatest hypocrite in this country. He thinks he is the only saint. The next excuse we will hear from our esteemed youth will be "where is the evidence".

We must not let these politicians, Gej, Obj or PMB fool us. We must continue to mount pressure on the govt so that we can get a better Naija.

I still have great hopes that Nigeria will be great again. Say no to these failed leaders.

My name is OBJ i was a former president of nigeria i am a criminal #allnigeriansarenotcriminals

Hmmm

Obasanjo did his best as a President. When you compare him to Jonathan Ebele Goodluck, you would understand that Eba is different from Eba.

I mean the one you swallow at Sheraton is different from the one in Isolo. Jonathan sef

OK. NOTED

Keneking:
Obasanjo did his best as a President. When you compare him to Jonathan Ebele Goodluck, you would understand that Eba is different from Eba.

I mean the one you swallow at Sheraton is different from the one in Isolo. Jonathan sef

Obj is the greatest thief....

I thought hez a saint

Obj is the grand master of corruption in this democratic dispensation, it's when Buhari starts probing his administration that I will know he is truly fighting kwaruption.

LRNZH:
OBJ?I am not surprised. The man who wanted third term and brought the ilks of Jonah upon us.

..... And is the navigator of APCshit, not so


Obasanjo endorses APC moves, as party leadership visit Abeokuta
22.Dec 2013

The push by the opposition, All Progressives Congress, APC to dislodge the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP received a boost yesterday as former President Olusegun Obasanjo openly threw his weight behind the APC’s current initiatives.
The APC leadership, comprising some national leaders and governors visited him Obasanjo in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Saturday to solicit the former president’s support for the party in the forthcoming elections.
The party leaders, which started converging on Obasanjo’s Hilltop Mansion around 5:22pm, included former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the party’s Interim National Chairman, Bisi Akande; former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari; former speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Masari; former Borno State governor, Senator Ali Modu-Sheriff; Senator Osita Isunazor; Senator Bukola Saraki and Lai Mohammed.
Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State came to the former president’s house in company with the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commissioin, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu; the former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode and others in a convoy of three black jeeps.
Other APC governors at the meeting included Rochas Okorocha (Imo), Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Abdulfattah Ahmed (Kwara), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano) and Senator Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo).
The Chairman of the New PDP, Kawu Baraje led some of his members and the former Kaduna State Chairman, Yero Makama, to the meeting.
Presenting the party chieftains and the APC governors to Obasanjo during the opening of the meeting, Akande said the party was in support of the former president’s 18-page letter to President Goodluck Jonathan.
The APC National Leader, Tinubu who alluded to Obasanjo’s contribution to the building of the Nigerian nation, lamented that the country was divided more than ever.
Apparently referring to Obasanjo’s recent letter to Jonathan, he enjoined the former president not to shy away from speaking the truth.
Tinubu added that the APC had resolved to rescue Nigeria, appealing to Obasanjo to lead the mission.
“You’ve come out of tribulation and held the highest position in this country. We are here because of your courage. Nobody can say he has information more than you. You have surmounted a number of crises. Nigeria is divided more than before; to realise stable Nigeria, we want to encourage you to continue to speak the truth. We’re resolved and determined to rescue Nigeria. We want you as navigator,” he said.


Source: http://newmail-ng.com/new/obasanjo-endorses-apc-moves-as-party-leadership-visit-abeokuta/

joshing:
I thought hez a saint

As a born-to-gain ProgreTHIEF member of APCshit, he is automatically a saint



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Keneking:
Obasanjo did his best as a President. When you compare him to Jonathan Ebele Goodluck, you would understand that Eba is different from Eba.

I mean the one you swallow at Sheraton is different from the one in Isolo. Jonathan sef

Someone needs to have his brain checked. Do you think it could be you?
Just asking oh.

...F A C T.. C H E C K ...

'Obasanjo and Atiku in 8 years built one UNIVERSITY each for themselves....Bells and ABTI.
They built NONE for Nigerians.

Jonathan and Sambo in 4 years built 14 (FOURTEEN) new universities for all Nigerians.
NONE for themselves.

NOTE: OBJ and ATIKU are now consultants/sponsors/piloters/members of APC....



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Obasanjo shared $74million Halliburton bribe, Okiro Panel says: • OBJ also pocketed another $5 million with PDP • Interim Panel report disappeared in Aso Rock
MAY 18, 2010


President Olusegun Obasanjo, who led Nigeria from 1999-2000, during which time he swore to fight corruption in the country, obtained considerable helpings of the infamous Haliburton bribe money, the Special Investigation Panel headed by Inspector-General of Police, Mike Okiro, has declared in an interim report.

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maybe it was GEJ that she signed it when he was a governor, how can saint OBJ do that?

Na wa.

Nigerian politicians

maybe it was GEJ that she signed it when he was a governor on obj's behalf, how can saint OBJ sign that corrupt contract?

It is high time melaye left Obasanjo alone else he would have himself to blame later. Politics is a game that should be played with wisdom

If corruption were a country, the founding father was IBB.the president was Abacha while OBJ the vice- president and Jonathan the Senate president

APC's navigator is a crook

Obj probably stole monies on the project, and Jonathan came in and stole more from where Obj stopped. Little wonder we never heard anything about this in his six long years of rudderless leadership.

forget about obj and focus on how to increase the value of naira ;(

After reading this kwarupsion news of obasanjo and buhari political godson, i called efcc to go and arrest them.

*dialled EFCC* .
* EFCC dialled buhari*

EFCC ask me not to call them again.

OBJ remains one of the greatest criminals this country ever produced.

This guy corrupt sha oh both him military rule nd civilian rule nothing to show for it obansanjo was d first to introduce bribery into the national assembly - Dino melaye 2016

That 1 is a bigger coded Demon....

hmmmm