The Governor Simon Lalong-led administration in Plateau State on Wednesday accused some technocrats of frustrating the work of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up to investigate the activities of the government in the state from May 29th 2007 to May 29th 2015.
Lalong raised the alarm through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Dan Manjang, in a chat with journalists in Jos.
According to him, “Some memos submitted before the commission by ministries, departments, agencies and individuals are not been supplied with the necessary documents to fast track the Commission’s work”.
Manjang, who lamented the action, described it as a deliberate act to frustrate the ongoing work of the commission.
While citing an example of a Memo number: JCI/34/34/2016, Ministry of Works and Transport” with her contractors before the Judicial Commission of Inquiry holding at the Azi Nyako Youth Centre in Jos, he asked: “How can a ministry, department, agencies or individual submitted memo long before now and the valuable documents are not accessible?”.
“Some of these civil servants are bent on the consumption of the allotted time given to the Commission, the team of personnel in this Commission are full of experience people and may have a way of shortening the time, but most worrisome is some of the delayed encountered in tendering vital documents which I must say some are deliberate act,” he lamented.
However, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works, Engr. Sunday Hyat, told the Commission that about 64 roads were awarded as contracts by the Ministry, within the northern senatorial district of the state, decrying that some of the projects have suffered delays especially the “Bukuru-Lowcost, Nyango-Gyel road awarded in 2008 to Qumecx Nigeria Limited at the cost of N1.2 billion and was terminated in 2012.
According to Hyat, the contract was re-awarded in December 2012 to Jodalson Global Limited at the cost of N204 million, later reviewed twice in 2013 and put at the cost of N1.4 billion after some change in the scope of works for overlays.
He maintained that due to delays and the inability of the contractor to mobilise in time to site living work level at 49 per cent, the contract was terminated and a certificate of violation of contract was issued to the contractor.
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