Senate bars FG from awarding contracts to Julius Berger, others

Senate Committee on Works has   asked  the Federal Government not to award road contracts to Julius Berger Nigeria Limited and other multinational construction companies unless they take part in government road concession programmes.
Chairman of the Committee, Senator Ayogu Eze, who gave the directive yesterday during an interface with the Ministry of Works at the 2012 budget defence, lamented that all the multinational construction companies have failed to contribute to the rehabilitation of Nigerian roads despite enjoying high patronage from the Federal Government.
He said: “Despite the patronage multinationals are enjoying from government of the federation, they have maintained studied distance from our development programmes.”
He lamented.
The committee also held that multinational construction companies should be made to take up at least two major roads on concession when a road contract is awarded.
Senator Eze also kicked at the 2012 budget for Works stressing that the poor state of Nigeria roads contributes to poor economic development of the country.
He said, “If we continue the way we are going, there is no way we can move forward in this country; I think federal government should create special fund for the road projects in the country just as the government did in the case of power so that we can move forward.
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