Speaking with newsmen in Calabar on Thursday, the Managing Director of Obi Achara Nigeria Ltd, James Obi said that his company decided to hand over the centre because of goodwill and in consideration of the health and wellbeing of Nigerians.
“We completed the project and many others as far back as 2017, but they refused to pay us, out of goodwill and the interest of the people, we decided to hand over the centre with the view of getting paid as promised but till date we have not heard anything. It was gathered that the Centre for Emerging Pathogens Research and Management was started in 2016 in the hospital under the former Chief Medical Director, Prof Thomas Agan and completed in 2017 but the keys were handed over to the management of UCTH 2020 following the spate of Lassa fever and reports of COVID-19.
When contacted, the Chief Medical Director of the UCTH, Prof Ikpeme Ikpeme, said via phone that they were not denying the fact that the contractor built the centre but we were going to pay him when funds were available.
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