The Federal Government through the Ministry of Works has disclosed that it has N431bn ready for contractors.
The Minister of Works, David Umahi, stated this while meeting with all contractors handling road dualisation projects and all zonal Directors of the Ministry at the Ministry’s office in Abuja on Thursday.
The Minister also announced the Ministry’s intention to focus on most of the dualised roads across the country.
Speaking through the Director of Information Press and Public Relations Unit, Blessing Lere-Adams, Umahi further tasked the contractors to stick to one lane if their job had not gone up to 50 per cent completion, adding that he had also come up with a Performance Bond which meant that all new projects would be guaranteed for 10years.
He urged all contractors that have built roads that cannot last up to ten years to write to the Ministry to either stop work or rebuild the road to last 10 years.
He, however, warned contractors that he would not listen to stories of failures on the roads due to overloading, he enjoined all the contractors to cooperate with him on building roads with concrete technology as it was done both in India and Singapore.
