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FEC Blacklists Contractor For Non-Performance

The contractor who handled the power sub station in Amasiri in Ebonyi State, is to be blacklisted because of non performance. This follows its failure … Continue reading FEC Blacklists Contractor For Non-Performance


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FECThe contractor who handled the power sub station in Amasiri in Ebonyi State, is to be blacklisted because of non performance.

This follows its failure to execute the contract within the agreed time frame.

The Minister of State for Power, Mallam Wikili Mohammed, disclosed this to State House correspondent after the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC  meeting. He said that the contractor, Tecno Electric and Engineering Company would have all the directors prosecuted and banned from performing any other contract in the country.

According to him, the contract has been re-awarded to a new contractor, North Power Engineering Limited, at a cost of 5.8milllion dollars and is to be completed in 12 months.

The sum of 5.8million dollars is to be spent on the expansion of the power transmission supply in Ebonyi State and some parts of Cross River State.

In the transport sector, 2.9million Euro would be spent for the provision of boats for use in the nations ports.

Also approved by the Federal Executive Council, FEC, was the National Integrated Infrastructure Master-plan 2014 -2043.

The National Integrated Master-Plan for Nigeria from 2014-2043 is said to be one that would change Nigeria as a nation. The final copy of the master plan covers all the key sectors of the economy and is designed to match modern economies anywhere in the world.

The Minister of National Planning, Dr. Abubakar Sulaiman, said that the 30-year master-plan would cost over 3.05 trillion dollars to implement and would bring Nigeria at par with the developed world.

The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Olusegun Aganga, was said to have also intimated the Federal Government about the private sector’s contribution of walk-through body scanners in Nigeria, for use at the borders to check the spread of Ebola Virus Disease.