NDDC warns contractors against doing shady jobs

In order to be eligible for payment, contractors working on Niger Delta Development Commission projects are required to provide high-quality work.

During an interactive session with stakeholders and contractors at the commission’s Port Harcourt headquarters, Chief Tony Okocha, the Rivers State Representative on the NDDC Board, made this statement.

Pius Ughakpoteni, the NDDC Director of Corporate Affairs, made this announcement in a statement released in the state on Thursday.

Okocha emphasized that contractors would not receive payment for their work if the standards were not met.

Although he acknowledged the contractors’ worries about payments for finished work being delayed, he said the Commission may take into account paying contractors an advance mobilization fee to expedite their work.

Okocha said, “I am coming to your sites with my team of competent engineers to assess the work you are doing and if I find the work to be sub-standard, you will have yourself to blame as the current NDDC board will not compromise on standards.”

He emphasized that the Commission will carry out initiatives and plans in accordance with the President Bola Tinubu-led administration’s Renewed Hope Agenda, which was intended to benefit the people of the Niger Delta.

He added, “We will create a table of contractors that actually worked and are deserving of payment for their efforts.”

Adding to the conversation, Chief Tony Maduabuchi, a contractor, urged the federal government to take the NDDC out of the Treasury Single Account on the grounds that the TSA was preventing contractors from receiving adequate payment from the Commission.

Alex Obichie
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