This is the second and concluding part of INNOCENT DURU’s investigation into what public varsities in the South West are doing with the funds received for the implementation of TETFund projects in their respective institutions.

The University of Lagos, popularly known as UNILAG, is one of the federal universities that have benefitted immensely in terms of resources meant for the execution of TETFund projects.

But visits our reporter paid to the institution revealed that the implementation of some of the projects are riddled with question marks.

On Page 54 of a document titled ‘Performance Report on 2015-2018 Budget, TETFUND and NEEDS Assessment, Including 2019 Proposed Budget Implementation’ sent to the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND, the institution listed the construction of an 11-storey library complex as one of the ongoing projects. The project is under the institution’s 2012 High Impact TETFUND Special PROJECT Batch II (New Library Building).

Findings, however, revealed that the institution is building a seven-storey building instead of the 11-storey building in the design at the sum of N1,935,135,087.35. Suspicions concerning the building project was compounded by the controversy generated by its partial collapse recently. The new university library building purportedly being constructed by Dutum Construction Company Limited collapsed sometime in February 2019, provoking hot verbal exchange between the Governing Council and the management of the institution.

The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Procurement, Oluwole Oke, said after a visit to the site that the lower chamber decided to investigate it as well as others after a letter written by the Pro-Chancellor of the university, Dr Wale Babalakin, drawing attention to issues of alleged financial infractions and faulty project implementation.

Oke said: “We are here pursuant of the resolution of the House mandating us to investigate the alleged infractions of provisions of public procurement Act 2007 and other financial issues. And we invited the stakeholders.

“Even though the regulators, the NUC and the Federal Ministry of Education, have already taken steps, we felt that the allegations of the Pro-Chancellor were very weighty and we felt we should investigate his claims.”

Consultant to the library building project, Mr Oreoluwa Fadayomi, was reported as saying that he had warned the contractor, Mr Olatunde Runsewe, that the building could collapse if proper steps were not taken, and even refused to approve progress thereby delaying the project.

Fadayomi, Director of Landmark Integrated Technologies Limited, told the House of Representatives Committee on Public Procurement which inspected the site that Runsewe’s Dutum Co Ltd workers lacked the expertise to complete the library project, which he said should have been delivered since November 2018.

He said: “The management of the contractor as it was (as at the time of incident) cannot handle the continuation of the project. Here is a job we should have handed over in November last year and we are still on the first floor.

“And why were we on the first floor? Because I was diligently monitoring and refusing to approve shoddy work, and I was being blacklisted and blackmailed.

‘We changed supervisor over three times because we said no. They would give us methodologies that would not work and we would say no. The management, the staffing have to be overhauled to continue the project.

“If it is the same persons and process, Sir, my firm will withdraw from that project because we cannot continue to supervise at that level. They have to up their game if they have to continue.”In his defence, Runsewe said he was competent to handle the construction as he had handled similar projects – such as the Senate Building of the Covenant University and that of the University of Ibadan.

READ MORE: https://www.icirnigeria.org/controversy-questions-trail-execution-of-tetfund-projects-in-unilag-futa/

ThreeBlackBird:


Away from the jabs, I think we should assess the situation rationally here. A project was meant to be completed November, 2018 and in early 2019, the slab of the first floor collapsed. Imperative to note they've not not gone pass the first floor because the supervisor would not accept their shoddy work. Consultants and supervisors who visited the site admitted DUTUM was doing a shady job and using archaic technology for the job.

The question thus becomes, is this how it executed the construction of the Senate building of CU? If it is, then CU senate building is a ticking ticking time bomb, it would explode. It's simply a matter of time.

As for your early morning rant against CU. Sorry but you won't succeed at driving an equivalence between CU and the straight up crap that happens in your FG schools.

The case of the registrar had nothing to do with sex for marks. They had consensual sex for years in exchange for giving her a pass at CU's community rules.

She later felt it was an assault because she was a minor. But know this, the day she wanted to out him it took a single phone call between her and Oyedepo to get the registrar sacked and evicted from campus. She didn't even need to step a foot in Nigeria.
We didn't need a Kiki mordi to handle that. We the Alumni community outed him and got him sacked. So I'm pretty sure CU's internal control is credible enough to handle anything thrown at it.






As for the Unilag project I feel something else is at play here. First and foremost Dutum delivered the 8 floor Senate building of CU at 350 million naira and is expected to deliver the Unilag Library of 9 floors for 2 billion naira. It's clear there's a lot of fraud going on.

That means CU senate building(350m), Landmark university college(1.2B) and Dominion Hangar(350m) isn't up to Unilag's library budgeted at 2billion. I have seen that building prototype and my company would deliver it for #500 million naira. This is reason why I am not one to run after an FG project. Apart from the fact that there are too many people trying to get a kickback, sometimes they won't pay you on time and then heap the whole blame on you when things go sideways

You see the problem going on for the Unilag project is that there are lots of contesting parties trying to loot Tetfund dry.



As for Dutum's technical track record take a look at this link and understand what I'm saying.
https://dutumgroup.com/projects
Dutum is not a small player so technical expertise isn't the question here.

I am not so bothered about price but the reasons behind the rejection of the contractor and his men. You can't keep hiring and firing forever as a contractor because some cold room institution feels you should. Besides the man says he has handled similar project for reputable schools.

CodeTemplar:
I am not so bothered about price but the reasons behind the rejection of the contractor and his men. You can't keep hiring and firing forever as a contractor because some cold room institution feels you should. Besides the man says he has handled similar project for reputable schools.

Covenant university boy, what are the cold rooms over there in CU call again? Oh! I now remember. They are the registrar and principal officers' offices.

Away from the jabs, I think we should assess the situation rationally here. A project was meant to be completed November, 2018 and in early 2019, the slab of the first floor collapsed. Imperative to note they've not not gone pass the first floor because the supervisor would not accept their shoddy work. Consultants and supervisors who visited the site admitted DUTUM was doing a shady job and using archaic technology for the job.

The question thus becomes, is this how it executed the construction of the Senate building of CU? If it is, then CU senate building is a ticking ticking time bomb, it would explode. It's simply a matter of time.

HigherEd:

As for your early morning rant against CU. Sorry but you won't succeed at driving an equivalence between CU and the straight up crap that happens in your FG schools.
The case of the registrar had nothing to do with sex for marks. They had consensual sex for years in exchange for giving her a pass at CU's community rules.

She later felt it was an assault because she was a minor. But know this, the day she wanted to out him it took a single phone call between her and Oyedepo to get the registrar sacked and evicted from campus. She didn't even to step a foot in Nigeria.





All these projects are at least 5 years old and there is no issue at all.

I feel something else is at play here. First and foremost Dutum delivered the 8 floor Senate building of CU at 350 million naira and is expected to deliver the Unilag Library of 9 floors for 2 billion naira. It's clear there's a lot of fraud going on.

That means CU senate building(350m), Landmark university college(1.2B) and Dominion Hangar(350m) isn't up to Unilag's library budgeted at 2billion. I have seen that building prototype it shouldn't be up to 500m.

You see the problem going on for the Unilag project is that there are lots of contesting parties trying to loot Tetfund dry.



As for Dutum's technical track record take a look at this link and understand what I'm saying.
https://dutumgroup.com/projects
Dutum is not a small player. I know this because i have been into real estate myself....

There you go again. In your attempt to indulge a secret society, CU, and exonerate it completely, you make it even more terrifying to the sight. How on earth do you dare justify such misbehaviour as consensual? Consensual sex in exchange for what? Is it on that premise, you earned a degree from the school?

Don't bother putting comparison between CU and Unilag. I wouldn't ever have sacrificed my experience in Unilag for a secret society where all sort of illegalities, human right violation and sexual harassment in guise of consensual sex are perpetrated, buried and never heard of.

Feel free to ride on a phone call that led to the termination of the former registrar's appointment when we all know whether she made the call or not, he would still have been fired by the almighty Papa because the media had feasted too much on the news. But would he have been fired if the news never got to Papa? No! It would be swept under the carpet because he's another Papa's boy.

ThreeBlackBird:


Covenant university boy, what are the cold rooms over there in CU call again? Oh! I now remember. They are the registrar and principal officers' offices.

Away from the jabs, I think we should assess the situation rationally here. A project was meant to be completed November, 2018 and in early 2019, the slab of the first floor collapsed. Imperative to note they've not not gone pass the first floor because the supervisor would not accept their shoddy work. Consultants and supervisors who visited the site admitted DUTUM was doing a shady job and using archaic technology for the job.

The question thus becomes, is this how it executed the construction of the Senate building of CU? If it is, then CU senate building is a time bomb ticking to explode, it's simply a matter of time.

While I won't sit here and deny the existence of sexual misconduct in CU, I think we all know how the management of CU frowns at it and never have to be influenced by media exposé of the act before daring to act. Can we say same about cold room University? If CU was closing their eyes to theirs, I am sure it would have evolved into a cold room situation like unilag where they formed a deadly clique of harassers.

As for the contractor, The man says he has completed such projects before and I have no reason to doubt him. The possibilities are endless when it comes to public or federal project, kickbacks could starve the projects of funds, maybe a rival did something malicious but I find it hard to believe a contractor will bring in substandard material and do a poor job step by step in front of a whole UniLag. I seriously doubt that was the case.

CodeTemplar:
While I won't sit here and deny the existence of sexual misconduct in CU, I think we all know how the management of CU frowns at it and never have to be influenced by media exposé of the act before daring to act. Can we say same about cold room University? If CU was closing their eyes to theirs, I am sure it would have evolved into a cold room situation like unilag where they formed a deadly clique of harassers.

As for the contractor, The man says he has completed such projects before and I have no reason to doubt him. The possibilities are endless when it comes to public or federal project, kickbacks could starve the projects of funds, maybe a rival did something malicious but I find it hard to believe a contractor will bring in substandard material and do a poor job step by step in front of a whole UniLag. I seriously doubt that was the case.

Good morning, Covenant University boy. You and I both know CU is never under the scrutinizing lens of the media as much as Unilag is. As a matter of fact, it's a fraternity that treats and buries it own issues at the center of the school while smiling to the public, qouting figures, stats and seeming all is entirely well. These issues are never again to be heard even among the students.

A boy with a ruthless gut sued the University and secret spilled that the registrar, as well as other principal officers, in who's care parents should find their children protected, is comfortably, sexually assaulting them in a cold room know as one of the highest offices in a university. That case was never meant to see light of the day if it were business as usual.

There's no way on earth the sexual predators occupying the highest offices in CU, all the way down the ladder, would deny knowing such ever existed until the case was lying openly in the court of public opinion. Guess what! Papa himself fired the man involved. A sexual beast could not even be suspended until the arrival of almighty papa and his consent. This means many more cases would be buried as far as papa doesn't get to know.

In a liberal university as Unilag, there's a fair hearing process just as you'll find in any other sane university of the world. The cardinal principle of law is he who asserts must prove. Koki Mordi proved her case and got the predators out of the school. You cannot expect a kangaroo judgement, as you might find often in CU, to maliciously take away innocent people's job. That's why the boy who sued lost at CU but won in court, although on technicalities but on the standard which it should be.

You'll also agree with me that such investigation carried out would only scale through in a university as Unilag, a citadel free for all. Kiki might not have made it pass the gate or arrested for trespass if she's unlucky to get in. Ills and rot that happen in CU remains in CU. Well, it should and its students should live with it. We really don't need to know.

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na real wa. who is supervising the projects? do these schools not have full fledged engineering departments? with a wide band of alumni who can be called in for pro bono support?

there is no excuse for the collapse. delays, maybe - those happen all the time, especially if no one is willing to be realistic about timelines from the start

OK oh

It's good to hold them accountable.

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They should also check the one in yabatech

It has been condoned off, because the building is shaking

To be honest, as a civil Engineer I'm amazed with the speed of their projects have happened to come across. Its quite shocking

These are serious allegations that must be probed

ThreeBlackBird:


Good morning, Covenant University boy. You and I both know CU is never under the scrutinizing lens of the media as much as Unilag is. As a matter of fact, it's a fraternity that treats and buries it own issues at the center of the school while smiling to the public, qouting figures, stats and seeming all is entirely well. These issues are never again to be heard even among the students.

A boy with a ruthless gut sued the University and secret spilled that the registrar, as well as other principal officers, in who's care parents should find their children protected, is comfortably, sexually assaulting them in a cold room know as one of the highest offices in a university. That case was never meant to light of the day if it were business as usual.

There's no way on earth the sexual predators occupying the highest offices in CU, all the way down the ladder, would deny knowing such ever existed until the case was lying openly the the court of public opinion. Guess what! Papa himself fired the man involved. A sexual beast could not even be suspended until the arrival of almighty papa and his consent. This means many more cases would be buried as far as papa doesn't get to know.

In a liberal university as Unilag, there's a fair hearing process just as you'll find in any other sane university of the world. The cardinal principle of law is he who asserts must prove. Koki Mordi proved her case and got the predators out of the school. You cannot expect a kangaroo judgement, as you might find often in CU, to maliciously take away innocent people's job. That's why the boy who sued lost at CU but won in court, although on technicalities but on the standard which it should be.

You'll also agree with me that such investigation carried out would only scale through in a university as Unilag, a citadel free for all. Kiki might not have made it pass the gate or arrested for trespass if she's unlucky to get in. Ills and rot that happen in CU remains in CU. Well, it should and its students should live with it. We really don't need to know.

U dey mind am, him and highered.
Instead of talking about the topic and shoddy work by the contractor, he is trying to evade it because same contractor said he worked for CU.

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