By Mashe Umaru Gwamna
The federal government has announced plans to terminate the rehabilitation of the Lokoja-Benin road contracts over delay.
This was contained in a statement signed by Edet Ekpenyong for Director: Information and Public Relations.
It said the Minister of Works, Senator (Engr) David Umahi, disclosed this at the stakeholders engagement meeting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom on Saturday.
The Minister, while lamenting over the attitude of some unpatriotic expatriate contractors in the country, warned that any contractor who continues to behave in that way will have his contract terminated.
While inspecting projects sites along Calabar -Itu road on his way to Cross River State from Uyo, Senator Umahi was physically worried about the agony Nigerians go through over the poor condition of the road.
He called on Julius Berger to return to the project site immediately to avoid sanctions from the ministry.
“We are going to do everything to support local contractors. we are going to encourage them and build them so that they can compete with the expatriate contractors.
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