The Hon. Herman Hembes-led House of
Representatives Committee on Federal
Capital Territory(FCT) has queried the
Minister of the FCT, Muhammed Bello, for
spending N55 million to build the gate
house in the official residence of the Vice President. According to the Committee, the
FCT administration also built a mosque that
could accommodate only 12 persons for
N96 million and a small chapel which will
take care of only 20 persons for N86
million at the VP’s residence. Hembes described as reckless expenditure in the
award of contracts in the FCT when the
minister appeared before the committee to
defend its 2016 Budget proposal. He then
ordered that the alleged bloated contracts
be halted. The Vice President’s aide-de- camp, ADC’s residence will be built for
N288 million,while the same amount also is
expected to build the residence of the
Chief Security Officer, CSO, of the Vice
President. Hermes said he wondered why
the figures were so high,while he expressed dismay that work had stopped
at the Vice President’s official residence by
Julius Berger after allegedly collecting
about N6.8 billion out of the contract sum
of N7 billion.
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Reps. query FCT minister on alleged bloated contracts: N55m for VP’s gate; CSO, ADC houses for N288mCreated at 2016-02-14
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