The Federal Capital Development Authority was mandated to send a budget to the National Assembly for the renovation of the complex. The National Assembly building, which is one of the national monuments, is maintained by the FCDA.A budget of about N37 billion was approved for the renovation of the National Assembly complex but a loud outcry by Nigerians caused the project to be put on hold.
He added that they never received the sum of N37 billion or any amount for the renovation of the complex. Some members of the National Assembly expressed misgivings about the capacity of the company to deliver quality jobs even as they insisted that the sum approved for the project is too high. “Why was ITB not selected, for instance, since the first phase of the complex was built by it? One is tempted to assume that the Federal Capital Development Authority may have been put under pressure to select Messrs Visible Construction Limited.”“Why not give them more work as they have experience, having handled the first phase,” he asked.
But sources disclosed that the FCDA handed the job to Visible Construction, a Lagos-based firm, following a strong recommendation by a principal officer of the House of Representatives. But in his reaction yesterday, the special adviser on media and labour to the clerk to the National Assembly , Austen Adesoro said Nigerians who know the state of the complex will want such renovation to be carried out.
However, the chairman, House Committee on FCT, Hon Garba Idris Abdullahi, denied that there was any underhand dealing in the contract award. “When they went to the council and they wanted to find out more about the company, they went to check the project he had done in Oyo and Ogun states and they came back and went to the BPP. So, anybody saying that the company is not competent is not telling the truth. And this thing went through the FEC, the company that came with a bill of about N47 billion, that is realistic,” he said.
He said that other companies which quoted lower amounts might have bid for the contract to maintain the National Assembly complex, but the company that the agency and other stakeholders would be comfortable with, following their antecedents, would be awarded the contract.
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