DutchBruh:
The State Government of Osun on Thursday signed a concession agreement with All Works of Life (AWOL) International Limited for the completion of the MKO Abiola International Airport, Ido-Osun.

This is a white elephant project that is not economically feasible. It will later be abandoned,due to inadequate funding.

You see how our leaders loot us blind and why nothing ever works in the country?

DutchBruh:
The State Government of Osun on Thursday signed a concession agreement with All Works of Life (AWOL) International Limited for the completion of the MKO Abiola International Airport, Ido-Osun.

This is a white elephant project that is not economically feasible. It will later be abandoned,due to inadequate funding.

You see how our leaders loot us blind and why nothing ever works in the country?

samebony1:


The awardee is to provide full funding for the project . It is a BOT model of PPP. Read the story before you rush to comment next time

samebony1:


The awardee is to provide full funding for the project . It is a BOT model of PPP. Read the story before you rush to comment next time[size=8pt][/size]

DutchBruh:

How can the awardee provide funding when it doesn't even have a website or track record of any projects completed?

dodelight:
Welcome to APC's world

DutchBruh:
The State Government of Osun on Thursday signed a concession agreement with All Works of Life (AWOL) International Limited for the completion of the MKO Abiola International Airport, Ido-Osun.

This is a white elephant project that is not economically feasible. It will later be abandoned,due to inadequate funding.

You see how our leaders loot us blind and why nothing ever works in the country?

AWOL International Limited will fund the project 100 per cent through our financial partner, like Turkish Exim Bank and Biray Group of Companies from Turkey.

Cakil assured Aregbesola that the partnering company, Biray Construction Company,‎ had the full the backing of the Turkish government, expressing optimism that quality job will be delivered at the end of it all.

He therefore assured that the execution of the airport will not only foster good relationship between the Osun State and Turkey, but also provide ample business opportunities between the partnering governments.

In his remarks, the chairman, Biray Construction Company, Birol Arikan‎ assured Osun State government of quality service delivery, stressing that the company possess the capacity to deliver on its mandate when being given a partnership, which he said will to turn around ‎the airport.

http://www.tribuneonlineng.com/turkish-govt-partner-osun-completion-mko-abiola-international-airport/

Ogun, Ondo, Ekiti, Kogi, Oyo, Kwara and Edo State as well as to our foreign visitors.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/10/osun-concessions-mko-intl-airport-to-turkish-firm/



He posited that his company will complete the entire Airport with 5 Star Hotels including all amenities like Cultural center, Water Park Recreation Center and Garden, Butterfly Museum and Casinos within the period of 2years. While enumerating the benefit that the airport will bring to the country, he said the airport is designed to facilitate the smooth movement of the people and goods from one point to another and serve as a channel way for tourism, hanger and cargo.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/10/osun-concessions-mko-intl-airport-to-turkish-firm/

deomelo:






http://thenationonlineng.net/abiola-airport-osun-gets-local-concession-pact/





[b]He said, “Compared with other local Airport, MKO International Airport will open the doors of business and other trade related opportunity within



1. Ogbeni bad bele ignorant and unintelligent ipob. Is website the new requirement for concessionaires?


Funding and construction is coming from Turkish firms and it's a build, operate and transfer (BOT) arrangement so get your story right.


2. You jokers are still crying and yelling marginalization because the FG didn't give you airport and your worthless and incompetent governors can not join money together to build 1 single aiport, but Osun alone is building their own international airport, even useless Fayose in Ekiti is clearing bush for his own airport while you ipob losers are busy doing bad bele, shouting marginalization, peddling hatred and anger over other people's progress.


3. So, roadside ignorant and unintelligent Igbos are now in a position to decided what is or not economically viable in other states and now their own worthless and unproductive states with incompetent do nothing governors.

This is obviously going to be a regional airport to serve not Only Osun, but also neighboring states.

4. Osun is the number 1 tourist destination in Nigeria so apart from shuttling goods and passengers in and out of Osun state and the region, tourists flying directly to tourism sites and also the number 1 yearly and world renowned festival in Nigeria, Osun-Osogbo festival is a plus and serious money generator.


This is why you losers no dey progress hence your marginalization cries..

DutchBruh:

I will remind you when this project fails and turns out to be a scam. Trust Nigerian politician at you own peril,they are the biggest thieves and most dishonest people in the world.

deomelo:



Ya mates dey progress and moving forward, but you dey carry bad bele and wishing failure for other people?

There's got to be more to you evil minded Igbos than bitterness, hatred, anger, bitterness and bad bele.

The only failure we are witnessing remains your worthless and unproductive villages where your useless governors can not join money together to build common airport like Arebe in Osun state, all they are capable of doing is shouting marginalization and pointing fingers..


Nna, Osun state or Aregbe is not your problem, your problem remains your worthless, unproductive villages and useless, vision less and incompetent governors.

samebony1:


The awardee is to provide full funding for the project . It is a BOT model of PPP. Read the story before you rush to comment next time[size=8pt][/size]

AbelDjassi:


I don't care who is funding the white elephant project, but I am sick to my teeth of the retarrrdded lies being perpetuated ad nauseum.

@DutchBruh is absolutely correct to call out Ogbeni's malfeasance here instead of waiting for a few years to express his anger. If you disagree, check out the screenshot attached.

Come on @sambony1, tell me where in the world it is that serious people assign important projects to companies without any credible track record. Do you want me to dig up my posts on 'Omo Ipon' and the controversy which accompanied it at the time, because of the role assign to the Governor's son (Kabiru) in that project? Yes, I am referring to Kabiru - the only IT expert of repute in the whole of Osun state! What about the other business of school uniform contracts going to firms run by the Governor's wife?

It is time to don the armour of battle again. NL will feel the heat once I get into stride.

dodelight:
Welcome to APC's world

AbelDjassi:


I don't care who is funding the white elephant project, but I am sick to my teeth of the retarrrdded lies being perpetuated ad nauseum.

@DutchBruh is absolutely correct to call out Ogbeni's malfeasance here instead of waiting for a few years to express his anger. If you disagree, check out the screenshot attached.

Come on @sambony1, tell me where in the world it is that serious people assign important projects to companies without any credible track record. Do you want me to dig up my posts on 'Omo Ipon' and the controversy which accompanied it at the time, because of the role assign to the Governor's son (Kabiru) in that project? Yes, I am referring to Kabiru - the only IT expert of repute in the whole of Osun state! What about the other business of school uniform contracts going to firms run by the Governor's wife?

It is time to don the armour of battle again. NL will feel the heat once I get into stride.

engineerboat:
How do this people sleep at night self

bulletproofmonk:
@ OP, before you jump to any conclusion, give us information on what contractual framework this project is being delivered. AWOL could just have been a Special Purpose vehicle (SPV).

bulletproofmonk:
@ OP, before you jump to any conclusion, give us information on what contractual framework this project is being delivered. AWOL could just have been a Special Purpose vehicle (SPV).

Against the background of opposition’s criticisms of the MKO Abiola International Airport, Ido Osun in Osun, the Consultant Engineer to the state ‎government on the project, Wemimo Adebajo, has revealed that the airport when completed will rank among airports with the longest runways in Nigeria.

Mr. Adebajo, during an inspection tour of facilities at the airport with journalists stated that the present site of the MKO Abiola International Airport was the first place where aviation activities took place in West Africa.

The consultant, speaking on the percentage of work done at the airport, noted that government, having spent N2.7 billion out of the revised total cost of N11billion for the project, work could be said to have reached 25 per cent.

He added that the West African Frontier Force was lifted from the Ido-Osun aerodrome, the present site of the MKO international Airport project during World War II, hence the conscious effort by the state to make it the best in Nigeria if not in Africa.

He told journalists that the tour of the facilities became germane to allow journalists be adequately informed about the magnitude of the work done in order to situate the criticisms of the opposition in their proper context.

According to the consultant, the runway of the airport waiting to be laid with 500 mm asphalt is 3.5 kilometre in length, 12.3 metres excavation and re-filling with laterite. He added that both sides of the runway are equipped ab initio with water pipes which will be the first of its kind in Nigeria.

He explained that with such a feature, the airport will have been equipped with facilities that will make emergency fire fighting readily available near the runway in case of any emergency landing or fire outbreaks.

He pointed out that though the runway has not been completed, but in case of an emergency, the runway at its present state can be used by any pilot to land an aircraft at the MKO International Airport.

“Still more to be done, I believe the airport is good for the state. The main delay right now is a question of funding and the state is seeking ways on how to make it available.

“We are approaching the federal government for 50 per cent of cost of building the airport which is Federal Government policy, right now. What the contractor is doing is site maintenance so as to ensure that when work resumes there won’t be any case of deterioration of the huge work that had already been done here,” the Airport Consultant stressed.

Mr. Adebajo also added that the Control Tower nearing completion is at the third floor of four sitting on a foundation of an excavated ground of nine metres.

He said, “A lot of work has been done, and as we go round, you will see the control tower which we have built and it is almost completed. You will see the terminal building built to the foundation, the airport fire station has reached the stage of roofing.

“The runway is going to take about 60 per cent of the cost of any airport project. A lot of work has been done on the runway, there are about 8 streams in the path of the runway. It therefore became necessary to excavate and build box covets so that the water in the stream will flow unhindered under the runway.”

He explained that the essence of the facility tour of the airport with journalists was to allow people know what the state is doing at the airport and not just respond to allegations.

“I think the State government is trying to make sure that the press, the people of the state and Nigeria as a whole are briefed on what they have actually been doing. If it was just to respond to some political allegations, you will be talking to a politician, not a technocrat like myself.

“I have actually read in the newspaper that the contract has been inflated to 15.5billion Naira which is not true, I have just told you it is 11billion Naira and if you compare this with every others in Nigeria, you will realise that the cost of this one is cheap”.

The Consultant Engineer confirmed to journalists that the airport project predated the Rauf Aregbesola administration stating that the project had since 2010 been reviewed to over N7.5 billion even before the coming of the Aregbesola administration.

In an earlier statement issued by the state government, the Director, Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Semiu Okanlawon, had debunked insinuation of contract inflation, saying considering exchange rate factors, and the fact that the scope of the project was reviewed to make the airport more sophisticated than earlier projected, allegation of inflation was mischievous and misplaced.

DutchBruh:

The state claims it's 100% private funding. Why give it to a briefcase company registered as a special purpose vehicle likely fronting for corrupt politicians?

engineerboat:



The question we should ask Aregbese is what happen to all the money budgeted for the Airport every fiscal year for the past 5 years

Keneking:
Osun is learning from Lagos

bulletproofmonk:


Most SPVs are briefcase companies and used to take care of interests. Nothing criminal about that, at least legally.

deomelo:




You forgot to show us the state's yearly budget highlighting the sums budgeted for the airport.


Please show us the budget and airport allocation...


I don't know why these Igbos love to lie and manufacturer rubbish all over the place.


While your own incompetent village governors are still shouting marginalization and begging the FG for airport.

relevanteism:
Guy even when you are faced with facts you are still arguing. Instead of questioning your governor, you are here defending the political rascals we call politicians. I beg to say you are either a part of this scam with your IPOB song.
It is good to be objective in reasoning and not foolishly support the guys who have no iota of care for you.
I think a forensic audit should be made to what happened to the initial budget for the said project, how much is the new coy paying back for the claimed work done and what process was followed for the procurement act.
I will never defend any politician that is a Nigerian. We know how dey go dey go.

DutchBruh:
Nigerians politicians are fantastically corrupt,ask David Cameron if you think I'm lieing.Defend them at your own peril.