Wednesday, 22 May 2013
PHOTONEWS: Monumental Fraud Discovered In Award Of Abuja Millennium Tower Project
The Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory has uncovered a major fraud in the award of the contract for the Abuja Millennium Tower Project contract to Salini Nigeria construction company at a whopping sum of N69.3 billion instead of N53 billion.
The Committee made the discovery during an oversight visit to the site of the project at the Business Central District Area, Abuja.
On August 2, 2006, during the Olusegun Obasanjo administration, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved the construction of a Millennium Tower and Cultural Centre in Abuja worth N53 billion. The Executive Secretary of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), Engr. Adamu Ismail, who conducted the Senators around the site, told them that the project was awarded to Messr Salini Nigeria Ltd on November 17, 2005; while work commenced on January 12, 2007.
Ismail noted that the project, which occupies four hectares of land, was expected to be completed by October 14, 2014.
The document submitted to the committee put the initial cost of the project at N62.1 billion; augmented cost, N69.3 billion; variation, N16.2 billion and advance mobilisation, N13.28 billion.
The Committee which was led by its Chairman, Senator Smart Adeyemi, described the discrepancies in the figures of the contract as unacceptable and vowed that the committee will get to the root of the matter.
The committee also expressed anger and displeasure when told that 302 Nigerians were working as labourers and 33 foreigners as principal engineers. The Executive Secretary had said of the 304 Nigerians working on the project, one is a quantity surveyor and another one an engineer.
Senator Adeyemi, said: “You cannot have all the principal engineers as foreigners.”
The Millennium Tower would consist of an auditorium, virtual library, botanical garden, hotel, boutiques, drives and parking areas, in addition to providing an aerial view of the entire Federal Capital Territory and the tallest in Nigeria. The project is expected to be completed in 2014.
The figure is in Naira o.
The figure is in Naira o. 69.3 billion naira
NIGERIA, FRAUD INCORPORATED.
Why should this be news to anybody? Fraud and corruption is killing this country and the only viable solution is capital punishment. It’s getting pretty embarrassing to call yourself a Nigerian.
AWUF OIL MONEY WHILE D NIGER DELTA GOES UNDER WATER
A project which would have no bearing whatsoever on the lives of the poor masses of 9ja! Tribalist have since the inception of the govt of Jonah, been using their blood stained money to destroy his image-so that the rogues from d 3 old regions, will continue to be d beneficiaries of these useless mouth watering contract scams. In a nation which does not have water, roads, health facilities and sound educational inst, we are throwing away 96b from d SS, to the dogs! To enable some fetish clowns have a clear view of how much oil money from the SS, was thrown into erecting a new FCT 4 d buharis! 9jas like Sonala, Okey, Pius and their baby pan cake anchor man, Charles Dickson among others, would never see anything wrong with these colossal waste of our oil revenue-in a land where we do not have electricity-these syndicated alawada writers would have been all over d place if GEJ had signed d contract-on behalf of OBJ and Buhari!
coast is quiet cause it was OBJ who signed d contract & not gej
A project which would have no bearing whatsoever on the lives of the poor masses of 9ja! Tribalist have since the inception of the govt of Jonah, been using their blood stained money to destroy his image-so that the rogues from d 3 old regions, will continue to be d beneficiaries of these useless mouth watering contract scams. In a nation which does not have water, roads, health facilities and sound educational inst, we are throwing away 96b from d SS, to the dogs! To enable some fetish clowns have a clear view of how much oil money from the SS, was thrown into erecting a new FCT 4 d buharis! 9jas like Sonala, Okey, Pius and their baby pan cake anchor man, Charles Dickson among others, would never see anything wrong with these colossal waste of our oil revenue-in a land where we do not have electricity-these syndicated alawada writers would have been all over d place if GEJ had signed d contract-on behalf of OBJ and Buhari!
33 foreign engineers working on a particular project in Nigeria.
Dear S.Adeyemi,
Let me seize this avenue to say thank you for your good job to rid Nigeria of anomaly with a view to uplifting her.
Now that you have found this age long problem, (enslaving our citizens in our own nation) i want to believe you will not only raise the alarm but take necessary action to make Nigerias integral part/parcels of all tangible projects in our nation like its being done in serious nations around the world except ours(ptotectionist agenda),Please erase Nigeria off the list of "banana republics" and posterity will be yours!I and indeed many of our compatriots had suffered this long without any high ranking leader(s) noting such.That you are finanly looking unto this particular aspect of foreigners lording it over Nigerians home and abroad,Let me say a new day is dawn but,this is most unfair!excepting UK and the USA dont allow these mushroom countries this far anymore!
Thank you.
Odion Olys.
YOU ARE DOING IT RIGHT SENATOR.
Senator Adeyemi, is good of you to react on the number of construction professionals working on the project. My advice as expert in the profession is for you to use your powers to draft a serious contract policy to regulate construction companies operating in Nigeria. We can do it better Adeyemi if you want it to happen.
nwoka
Millennium Waste
Another Collosal waste which adds no Economic value to our existence but a boost to some looter's pocket! nigeria needs not prayers from heathens but Egyptian style Arab spring to chase away these parasites called leaders. Soon Smart Adeyemi will not fume over contract inflation by the time he takes his own share, and thats the end of us as a people. Are you Nigerians aware that when our Reps go on an inspection of projects, they are given brown envelops for coming? Irresponsible and brainless parasites!
THE LEADERS ARE THE BASTION OF CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA
THE BASTION OF CORRUPTION..... CHINA, DUBAI AND QATAR BUILT A MORE BIGGER TOWERS WITH $16 BILLION NAMED DIWANG INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE CENTER, A 50 FLOOR BUILDING AT THE COST OF $18.371BILLION KNOWN AS AL YAQOUB TOWER AND $18.62 BILLION KNOWN AS NAVIGATION TOWER IN 2008 RESPECTIVELY.
BUT FOR THE BASTION OF CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA IT IS TAKING 6 YEARS TO BUILD ONE AT WHOOPING AMOUNT OF $69.3 BILLION..... WHY WON'T THERE BE BOKO HARAM, ARMED ROBBERS, KIDNAPPERS AND KILLERS ALL OVER THE LAND?????????? HIGH LEVEL THIEVES IN POWER!!!!!!!
HI
THEY WILL ARREST NO ONE, THAT MONEY IS GONE. MINIMUM LOOT PER WEEK IN NIGERIA=20 BILLION
Fraud Fraud everywhere
Fraud in everything, its is unfortunate. This administration is the worst ever in the history of our mother land.
Milliennium Tower
The committee should go down deep to unrevel this wastage of public funds. This kind of things is getting too much to bear in this country.
Will this discovery lead to
Will this discovery lead to any where? To be swept under the carpet as usual.
The only story
The only story we hear from Nigeria is FRAUD!
Keep it up.
The leaders should be bury the face in shame. That is if the word shame is still in their dictionary.
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