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Road: Fashola Clears Air On RCCG’s Petition

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April 16, 2021
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Road: Fashola Clears Air On RCCG’s Petition
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Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde  Fashola, has clarified the issue of payment to Cartil Construction Nigeria Limited in respect of the rehabilitation of Ife-Ifewara road in Osun.
The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) had  alleged that payment was made to the contractor by the ministry for  rehabilitation of the road which was done by the Church between 2016 and 2019.
The Director of Press and Publicity, FMWH, Mrs Boade Akinola, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.
Akinola explained that Fashola was speaking at the Public Hearing of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions.
Fashola debunked the allegation by RCCG that monies were paid to the contactor.
The minister clarified that no payment was made by the current administration with respect to the rehabilitation of the road.
Fashola stated that the contract was awarded to Messrs Cartill Construction Nigeria Limited five years before the Buhari Administration and six years before he was appointed as a Minister of Works and Housing.
He said that the then Minister of Works only approved the mandatory 15 per cent mobilisation fee on March 31,  2011 and another payment was made after the work had reached about 26.21 per cent on Dec. 29, 2011.
“These payments were all made four years before the Buhari’s administration,” he explained.
He  stated that the ministry did not make any payment to the contractor as a refund or certify any work done between 2016 and 2019.
Fashola added that the road in question was not a federal road but the contract was initiated as Parliamentary Constituency Project which was domiciled in the budget of the ministry.
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Hence the intervention of the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing.
While he thanked the chairman and other distinguished members of the committee for its impartial and dispassionate consideration of the petition, Fashola said that there was no basis for the petition by way of facts or evidence.
While commending the leadership of RCCG for intervening in the rehabilitation of the road, Fashola explained that there were procedures to be followed in intervening on federal and state roads.
Responding on behalf of RCCG, the Petitioner, Pastor Niyi Adebanjo apologised to the minister saying that the petition was not targeted at him, but was meant to expose some perceived sharp practices.
Adebanjo said that they thought that the Federal Government was to approve another payment for the road which was rehabilitated free by Pastor Encoh Adeboye as part of the church’s Social Corporate Responsibility. (NAN)
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