The Benue state government has disclosed it awarded contract for the construction of a 1.2km road for the sum of 890 million naira. This was disclosed today by the Governor's media aide, Jimin Geoffrey in a press release know his facebook page.

By implication, the construction of a meter of the road, which is about the length of the leg of a 6foot tall man (for clarity) would cost a whooping 741,000 naira!!! Bear in mind the road has no bridges and has no more than two culverts on it.

Read the full release below:

GOV ORTOM INSPECTS ROADS, OTHER ONGOING PROJECTS IN MAKURDI

By Jimin Geoffrey

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom Tuesday, January 10th, 2022 inspected ongoing roads and other projects in Makurdi, the state capital.

The Governor assured that the road projects, the 1.2 kilometres NKST Yina to George Akume way, awarded at the cost of N890 million and the 1.3 kilometer Low Cost Housing Estate, Naka Road to Bamban Community at the cost of N430 million will be completed within six months.

He explained that the two road projects under construction are being financed from a bank facility and the monies for the projects are intact, stressing that they will be completed and asphalted as scheduled.

The Governor stated that the two streets under construction in the North Bank area of the state capital are funded using ecological funds sent to the state by the Federal Government, pointing out that local governments also have their share of the ecological funds.

He stated that the road projects under construction in Makurdi metropolis are part of his administration's urban renewal initiatives.

The Governor commended youths from the areas where the projects are being executed for not engaging in theft of materials, even as he also commended the contractor, Privent Construction Company Nigeria Limited for executing quality job.

At the new headquarters of the Board of Internal Revenue Service, BIRS, Governor Ortom said when renovation work, which is at 90 percent is completed, the edifice will be named after the late former Governor of the state, Apollos Aper Aku.

Chairman and Managing Director of Privent Construction Company Nigeria Limited executing some of the projects, Engineer Stephen Akange said work on the roads projects will be completed within recorded time and according to specifications.

On his part, Ter Makurdi, Chief Vincent Aule, expressed appreciation to Governor Ortom for the laudable projects he is executing in his domain, stressing that the Governor is currently executing electricity project from back of Modern Market to Bamban Community.

The Governor and his entourage also inspected the Modern Market Gate-Agagbe-Adaka road for which contract has also been awarded and construction work billed to commence soon.

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Cc: Seun, Mynd44, Obinoscopy.

And the thief will be blaming his brother(Buhari) for misappropriation. Ortom is even a disaster like Buhari

Nigerian politicians are the same

Benue people really suffer..


Dem suffer from Herdsmen...

Suffer from Governor....


still suffer Buhari bad economy policy...


Dem suppose give Benue People special award...

This is Nigeria.

Well all governors learnt this nonsense from Lagos state governors that have been doing 1 km at over 1billion naira for over 15 years now.. I can see Ortom is still far cheaper that Lagos state version in that his own road seems to have some intricate drainage system being built to support the road

That should be the first and only road constructed by Ortom in that state. Benue has really suffered. Ebonyi too used to be like that years ago. If the head is rotten everybody suffers.

...better than what obtains In Lagos, where a single km of road gets constructed for N1.2billion and N500million to sink just one borehole.

If this is true, then Ortom is worse than we always thought

SarkinYarki:
Well all governors learnt this nonsense from Lagos state governors that have been doing 1 km at over 1billion naira for over 15 years now.. I can see Ortom is still far cheaper that Lagos state version in that his own road seems to have some intricate drainage system being built to support the road

Does Benue and Lagos have thesame topography and soil structure? Lagos is a water prone area; do you know it takes more to construct in a water prone area than dry land. Do you even know it costs more to stabilize the soil before meaningful construction can take place on it? You people will just come here and open your mouth wah!

He will soon blame buhari for this dubious contract award

SadiqBabaSani:
If this is true, then Ortom is worse than we always thought

What do you mean by "if this is true"?

The press release was by no other but his Senior Special Assistant on New Media.

funshint:

Does Benue and Lagos have thesame topography and soil structure? Lagos is a water prone area; do you know it takes more to construct in a water prone area than dry land. Do you even know it costs more to stabilize the soil before meaningful construction can take place on it? You people will just come here and open your mouth wah!

So I billion is too much Benue Topography but okay for Lagos topography ....so you have tested Benue Topography to know this?

This Muslims guys are really after Ortom because he deh give Buhari running nose.

Amotolongbo:
Nigerian politicians are the same

goood morrrin please do u hav yansh? I hav moiney

Pumpumking:


goood morrrin please do u hav yansh? I hav moiney

Yes I have yansh,
How much have you?

Yet u conveniently didn't see the one of 1.3km at ₦430million.
Commonsense should tell any person with a brain that there must be features in the other bridge that makes it costlier or the terrain is quite challenging.
Asides that,commonsense should again tell anyone with a functioning brain that if the goverment was set out to be brazenly corrupt in the project,it won't have had it posted for public consumption and perusal.
Finally,to show the government of Benue State is corrupt,as is your deluded intention,show comparative figures of the budget for construction of similar length of road by the FG and other APC run states.

omenkaLives:
The Benue state government has disclosed it awarded contract for the construction of a 1.2km road for the sum of 890 million naira. This was disclosed today by the Governor's media aide, Jimin Geoffrey in a press release know his facebook page.

By implication, the construction of a meter of the road, which is about the length of the leg of a 6foot tall man (for clarity) would cost a whooping 741,000 naira!!! Bear in mind the road has no bridges and has no more than two culverts on it.

Read the full release below:




Cc: Seun, Mynd44, Obinoscopy.

seborrhic:
Yet u conveniently didn't see the one of 1.3km at ₦430million.
Commonsense should tell any person with a brain that there must be features in the other bridge that makes it costlier or the terrain is quite challenging.
Asides that,commonsense should again tell anyone with a functioning brain that if the goverment was set out to be brazenly corrupt in the project,it won't have had it posted for public consumption and perusal.
Finally,to show the government of Benue State is corrupt,as is your deluded intention,show comparative figures of the budget for construction of similar length of road by the FG and other APC run states.

Don't mind the clown , the Fashola current MOW is today building an average KM for over 2 billion naira

seborrhic:
Yet u conveniently didn't see the one of 1.3km at ₦430million.
Commonsense should tell any person with a brain that there must be features in the other bridge that makes it costlier or the terrain is quite challenging.
Asides that,commonsense should again tell anyone with a functioning brain that if the goverment was set out to be brazenly corrupt in the project,it won't have had it posted for public consumption and perusal.
Finally,to show the government of Benue State is corrupt,as is your deluded intention,show comparative figures of the budget for construction of similar length of road by the FG and other APC run states.

Very stupid comment. Are you from Benue? Do you know anything about the location? I know the place like the back of my hand and there's nothing anywhere around that location that would male it cost that much.

The Facebook link to the SA's page where he gave the press release is there. Why dont you visit it and tell this idiotic crap t0 the Benue people enraged by this broad daylight grand theft?

Thunder fire any idiot that thinks Ikpeazu is bad but defends Ortom.

SarkinYarki:


So I billion is too much Benue Topography but okay for Lagos topography ....so you have tested Benue Topography to know this?

That's not what I'm saying I'm only replying those who think the construction rate in Lagos is overrated without looking critically at the prevailing soil structure of the place.