NATIONAL: Please Pay Us For Completed Projects, Indigenous Contractors Beg Wike
From Abdul SULE (Abuja)
Indigenous contractors in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, have pleaded with the minister, Barrister Nyesom Wike, to pay it’s members for various projects they have executed for the administration in recent time.
Leader of the group, Jubril Umar, who made the plea in a statement sighted by our reporter at the weekend, implored the FCT minister to look into their plights and fulfill the contractual obligations to it’s members as a matter of exigency, so that they can cater for their dependents’ basic needs and repay their to banks.
Umar, however, frowned at the obstruction to payment of verifiable completed contractual services rendered to various Secretariat of Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) by the indigenous contractors.
He alleged that the FCT minister prefers to make preferential and express payments to foreign contractors, while abandoning the indigenous counterparts, noting that many of his members have died as a result of this predicament.
The leader of the group is therefore pleading with their minister to do the needful and grant their request, even as he solicits for payment of their debts to serve as succour for delayed payment for completed jobs.
According to him, “It is heart wrenching after fulfilling all the processes of the contractual services to the completion stage with our hard earned money and loans from banks (with accruing interests), yet our files are abandoned as a result of the ministers directives, where-as the Honourable Minister consistently makes payments to foreign multinational companies.
It keeps wondering why we appear to be an exception when we have also done our works which are equally confirmable.
We implore the Honourable Minister of FCT to look into our plight and fulfill the contractual obligation to our members as a matter of exigency so that we can cater for our dependents’ basic human needs, medical bills and repay our loans to banks.
