₦airaland Forum

As a rejoinder to this publication: https://www.nairaland.com/2872621/aregbesola-inflated-airport-contract-n11.5bn#42080710

Femi Makinde, Osogbo

The Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has said he deserves commendation for building the Moshood Abiola International Airport at Ido-Osun, Osun State, for N11.5bn.

A consultant to the state government on information, Mr. Sunday Akere, who spoke on behalf of the governor, said this in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Tuesday.

He said the contract was not inflated to siphon the state’s resources as alleged by the Peoples Democratic Party.

He said the increase in the contract sum was necessitated by the inflation caused by the fall of the naira.

Akere said, “The PDP in Osun should be ignored, they are just seeking relevance. They should find out how much PDP states like Akwa Ibom, Gombe and others built their airports.

“When former President Goodluck Jonathan was in power, he said he added an additional airstrip to the Nnamdi Azikiwi International Airport, Abuja with N36bn. We should be commended for building an airport with N11.5bn.

“If we are building a complete airport with a hanger and other facilities for N11.5bn, then we should be commended. The governor deserves commendation.”

Akere also said the initial cost of the airport was underestimated.

But the PDP accused the governor of increasing unilaterally the contract sum of the airport from N4.5bn to N15.5bn.

The Director of Media and Strategy of the Osun PDP, Mr. Diran Odeyemi, said this in a statement on Sunday.

The statement read, “We are aware that Governor Rauf Aregbesola, on January 8, 2016 through a letter with reference number SP/S96/1/vi/348 re-awarded the airport contract to the same contractor and a payment of N472m was paid as take-off sum.

“The same company had earlier been paid N2.7bn for the same project without any serious work done on the project.

The PDP also accused the governor of inflating the contract sum in order to embezzle the bailout funds it got from the Central Bank of Nigeria.

The opposition party lamented that workers in the employ of the state were languishing in hunger as a result of unpaid salaries.

The party had said, “We are calling on the President and anti-graft agencies to send a secret team to the site of the so-called Moshood Abiola International Airport, Ido-Osun, to confirm what the government and the airport company had done with the N2.7bn taken from the purse of the state on December 14, 2012.


“Out of the amount, N2.5bn was sourced as a loan from a bank to be repaid monthly at N100m from the SURE-P funds. That loan is now part of the N88bn restructured for the state by the Central Bank for repayment till the year 2034 .”

Cc: Lalasticlala

http://www.punchng.com/aregbesola-admits-increasing-airport-contract-by-n7bn/

vedaxcool:
PDP don suffer oh. God bless PMB. God bless Nigeria.

Yeah!

The tyrannical move will END one day.

Btw: I blame GEJ.

APC show of shame.

Finally, while we study the bail conditions, we urge all PDP members to remain calm, united, focused and continue to pray for the nation and her people.

We also urge the media to remain on the side of justice, fairness and rule of law and resist the pressure of being used as a tool to promote arbitrariness and abuse of process in the so-called fight against corruption

ajepako:
Awon eranko yen kii you lasiko yii

Itiju ti alaimokan maalu baba won nkoba won yii o le mu won yoju

A won omo ale akidanidani alainironu eeyan

Awon omo iya wa, wa ninu won.

Decibel:
What are the job of Garba Shehu and Adeshina?

to cook lies...

NO PEACE for the Wicked!

APC & Buhary making both physical and spiritual error since 29th May 2015

No condition is permanent.

nwadiuko1:
I see what you see bro

Thank you.

's' and nothing is heard about the 's'

mcee1:
Egbon thought you are in burundi?

Anyway sai Baba!!!

Yeah, I left Burundi last week to Rwanda.

How is Afghanistan ?

bettercreature:
I've not been active lately i'm just super-happy seen Mr Metuh humiliated today.


Remember stealing wasn't corruption under 16yrs of PDP rule

Congrats!

“Under PDP administration, some Nigerians, including APC leader and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu were tried but never humiliated; now we see security operatives under this regime being used to crush and humiliate the opposition.”

The president pledged that more persons who have abused the public trust will be exposed and brought to justice soon, adding that his government was committed to re-establishing former standards of accountability and probity in the management of public funds which were jettisoned under past administrations.

Waiting for the sons & daughters of perdition for a rejoinder.

modath:
for once, have an opinion beyond , I HATE APC/APC is **** ,..... OGA OOOO








It didn't 'portray danger" when funds meant for security of lives & well being of citizens were being lavished without restraint & also used to prosecute an undeserved 2nd term.... judgement is loading for you & your ilk!!!!!!!

Fraudulent way of granting bail.

Okay!


Buhary is fighting kworoption.


What a better way to gag opposition.

Interesting country...

I reserve my comments.

I blame Jonathan

Adminisher:
Impossible. To award how many contracts?. To wait till what year?. Basic education is RIGHT. Amechi built very beautiful model schools and people blamed him that there were no teachers and no pupils inside 5hem. We have to forget PDP/Jonathan way of doing things. Maybe when we retrieve Dasuki 's $2.1bn and jail all of them including the firmer president we can then begin to tackle "what PDP did not want you to see in Kaduna State for 16 years".

If i were governor i won't even do anything on buildings till I employ teachers, then I would ply for all available donor funds internationallybto start rebuilding schools. The pupils are there, graduates are unemployed you are talking about buildings.

Goodluck Clueless Jonathan was happy for Bill Gates to eradicate Polio and Gordon Brown to secure schools while he stole money for elections. May we not have anybody like that evil, fake smile con man again IJN

I feel your pain and frustration.

Why not let go of hatred and bitterness?

Sorrowful heart shorten lifespan.

Alphaoscar:
OGA firefire, a party ruled that for 16years and they can't put those schools together now you want El-Rufai to perform miracle even with dwindling allocation let's be realistic for once.

Bros, don't you feel El- Rufai should have rather use the feeding fund to provide better learning environment for the pupils?

I weep for Nigeria.

Why embark on a stupid program of feeding the pupils when the pupils have no comfortable learning environment

Which is important?


APC and misplaced priority.

I wonder where the sons of perdition are currently ?

Wonderful!

Their life, their ideology, their culture.

Happy Married Life.

Budget of shame with shameful story surrounding it.

lomprico:
Pdp to apc

I hate APC with passion, Check me out!

APC, Party of professional liars and career propagandist.

APC Trade Mark - Lies!


Era of Zero Budgeting...

lomprico:
If its d other way round u would support abi!

Other way round where ?

He explained that some projects which were not included in the budget document before were smuggled in to cater for certain hidden interests.

“What we tried to do was to make a comparative analysis. The difference is not in the sub-total or sectorial allocation. The Senate did integrity check and found out that in some cases a certain amount of money was allocated to do two projects and because of integrity check, they found out that more projects were included in what that amount was voted for initially.
- Senator Ndume.


APC and their fraudulent practices...


APC, Party of professional fraudsters and career looters.