The N134 billion contract awarded to the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) for the renovation and furnishing of the Rivers state secretariat complex by Ikot-Ete Ibas, the former sole administrator of the state, has been revoked.
The contract was awarded during the six-month emergency rule under that of Ikot-Ete Ibas, the former sole administrator of the state.
The Rivers state executive council revoked the contract on Thursday during a meeting presided over by Governor Siminalayi Fubara at the Government House in Port Harcourt.
The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Nelson Chukwudi in a statement said that the council also directed the contractor to refund the N20 billion mobilisation fee it had received.
Commenting on the contract, Austin Ezekiel-Hart, Permanent Secretary in the Rivers State Ministry of Works, said the project was awarded “in haste” and “without due process”.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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