Minister of Works, Engr. David Umahi, last week in Lagos clarified issues causing controversy over the 700-kilometre Lagos-Calabar coastal highway after the inspection tour of the coastal road arising from allegation of lack of transparency in the award and costing of the critical project that connects the South-west to the South-south of Nigeria.
The allegation was raised by former President of Nigeria and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, in the 2023 election in Nigeria.
Atiku noted that the administration had while making the old project appear new, refused to make public the cost to tax payers. He argued that Jonathan put the cost at about $12 billion, but was renegotiated by Buhari to around $11.1 billion. “So we invited them based on procurement act. And so the way you are doing such invitation, there must be proof of track record of a company that has done such works. And so they gave us a quotation. We ran it with them,” the minister explained.
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