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Verify Your Contracts Or Forfeit Payment, NDDC Boss Tells Commission’s Contractors

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January 23, 2020
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Verify Your Contracts Or Forfeit Payment, NDDC Boss Tells Commission’s Contractors
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The Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Dr. Joi Nunieh, on Wednesday warned that contractors and consultants of the Commission who fail to present themselves for verification and documentation would forfeit their payments.

Nunieh gave the warning when she visited the NDDC Rivers State Office, where the Contracts’ Verification exercise was ongoing.

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According to a statement issued by the Commission’s Director, Corporate Affairs Charles Obi Odili, the NDDC boss noted that the verification committee’s assignment was the first stage in the redirection exercise at the Commission.

She said the second stage would entail site inspections and validations.

The verification exercise which kicked off on Monday is scheduled to end on January 31.

Nunieh said: “Anyone that is not on the NDDC list is not our contractor and such people should be handed over to the security agencies for prosecution. Similarly, anyone that presents a fake Interim Payment Certificate, IPC, will be arrested.”

She said that the NDDC had records of all the contracts that had been awarded by the Commission and as such, anyone coming with a fake IPC would be arrested by the security agencies.

“Contractors always say they are not paid, now we have asked them to come with all their documents and they are finding it difficult. Some contractors are scared of the verification exercise.

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“Any contractor who is not on the NDDC list is not our contractor and any contractor who fails to come for verification will be held liable.

We are hoping that Non-Governmental Organizations, NGOs, will come for the exercise as well. We only have limited time and up till now, only five NGOs have turned up for verification.

“If you don’t have documents, you are not a contractor, most of the NGOs are not registered and are running to register now. This is an embarrassment to the commission,” she stated.

Nunieh however, expressed satisfaction with the on-going verification exercise, saying that the committee planned to verify up to 250 contracts every day. “I am surprised that the turnout has been poor so far,” she observed.

She declared: “For those who use agents to run their contracts, they only remind me of our people who are abroad and would send moneys to their loved ones to develop projects, only for them to discover when they return that there is nothing on ground to show for all the moneys they sent.

“Some contractors are coming with fake documents and of course, they are not our contractors. Some contractors are also afraid to come for the verification.

“We urge contractors to come for the verification exercise, we will visit the sites only when a contract has been verified. Please, don’t pay anyone to come and do the verification for you, the exercise is free.” Nunieh said.

The Head of the Verification Committee in Rivers State, as well as the NDDC Director Agriculture and Fisheries, Mr. George Ero, told the Acting Managing Director that the turnout of contractors for the verification was very poor, noting that only 82 persons had been attended to out of a total of 2,500 recorded in the list of contractors in the state.

The enlarged Verification Committee has the Executive Director Projects, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, as chairman and the NDDC Director of Project Monitoring and Supervision, Dr. Emmanuel Audu-Ohwavborua, as Deputy Chairman.

Tags: Dr. Cairo OjougbohDr. Joi Nuniehfake Interim Payment CertificateMr. George EroNiger Delta Development CommissionRivers State
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