ernecy:
Oshiomole shud be quiet, he is becomin too loquacious

jlinkd78:
and garrulous too. Oshiomole has made a lot of allegations against GEJ which turned out to be unsubstantiable; d $6 billion doc from US officials readily comes to mind

jlinkd78:
and garrulous too. Oshiomole has made a lot of allegations against GEJ which turned out to be unsubstantiable; d $6 billion doc from US officials readily comes to mind

sleemfesh:
A former Minister of Works, Mr. Mike Onolememen, has denied the allegation by the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, that the Goodluck Jonathan-administration paid the sum of N140bn to consultants for the construction of the Second Niger Bridge.

Onolememen, who made the denial in a statement signed by his media aide, Mr. Tony Ikpasaja, made available toThe PUNCH on Thursday, accused the governor of misleading Nigerians with “wild and spurious” allegations.

The statement noted that the Second Niger Bridge was a Public Private Partnership project being executed on the Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer model at the cost of N108bn and that only N10bn, out of the refundable N30bn funding from Federal Government, was paid through the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme.

The statement reads, “The Federal Government of Nigeria, guided by the Transaction Adviser, Roughton International, agreed to provide a refundable Catalytic Funding of N30bn. By May 2015, N10bn Catalytic Funding was paid from the Federal Ministry of Works’ SURE-P Budget to fast-track the early and sub-structural works of the bridge. This implies that the successful concessionaire, JB-NSIA Consortium, has responsibility for the design, finance and construction of the project, as well as its operation.

“The total project cost is N108bn (excluding duties and Value Added Tax) with a completion period of about 48 months. This cost was arrived at, after BPP’s (Bureau of Public Procurement) review of the concessionaire’s submitted cost of N138bn.”

“The bridge located at about 2km downstream the existing Niger Bridge in Onitsha, has recorded impressive progress. One wonders therefore, the intentions of Governor Adams Oshiomhole in deliberately misinforming Nigerians on the true status of the 2nd Niger Bridge.”

Souce: http://scannewsnigeria.com/featured-post/second-niger-bridge-former-works-minister-disgraces-debt-ridden-oshiomhole-with-pictorial-evidence/

Keneking:
Ok. is this all what ndi Igbos get for N10bn

N10bn is Ten comma zero-zero-zero comma zero-zero-zero comma zero-zero-zero Naira only

1. google earth map (refer to attachment for current image)
2. earth works
3. pillars (i can't find the pillars on the map)

They (Peter Obi & Jonathan) have scammed and defrauded Ndi Igbos

Jonathan sef

Where is the bridge?

Keneking:


What does Ekushe mean? I hope not an insult as I have the report button handy...kindly have a decent conversation or else.

BTW, have you checked the latest google image, the development you referred to is not even captured on google earth.

I am sure you are not referencing Warri's Effurun roundabout/ flyover

dunkem21:


It's not in my DNA to insult people and that's why your initial post, though modified, irked me.

Ekushe(not sure of the spelling) means well done in Yoruba.

I will search out a thread on NL to prove the extent of work that went on the second Niger ..

Cuche:
The bogus nature of the terms for the construction of that bridge may have precipitated the rather rash action of PMB in suspending the construction.

1. The 'snailish' pace of work at the site may indirectly suggest that the actual sum for that project may not have been much in excess of 30 billion naira and expectedly will be provided by the Federal Government and the job we have seen so far is how far the 10 billion naira already provided can do

2. That some elements are warming up to make 78 billion naira in the purported BOT scheme, which will see Southeastern and Southern people paying heavily to use that bridge

3. It will be safe to predict that these elements will not hesitate to demolish the existing bridge to force more patronage of the goldmine of a bridge

4. The fact that JB has made itself a willing tool in the hands of men who have sworn to put States in perpetual debt, through quotations for project that make even the quality of projects in Germany jealous

5. Most concession projects in the recent history are replete with the Devils long spoon of the bid winners


The suspension of the project in the interim will give room for investigations and demystifying the project, hopefully the 2nd NB construction will restart in no distant time under terms that will not take our people for a ride

mykl01:


Bawoni (I think it means weldone.) Jor.... please keep up the free education.

doublewisdom:
Oshomole's brain died with Clara.