Contractors that handled the 2018 procurement in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, have threatened to take legal action against the Ministry over N17billion debt
The leader of the Group, Daniel Mozie, while speaking to The Guardian yesterday said they had picketed the Ministry severally, and extracted a promise from the Minister, Sabo Nanono, and Permanent Secretary, Dr Mu’azu Abdulkadir, to pay up but to no avail.
He lamented that some contractors have lost their lives due to their inability to bear the harassment from financial institutions from where they had borrowed money to fund the contracts since they were not given mobilisation money.
He said the actual sum being owed contractors, who participated in the 2018 project, is about N17billion and not N48billion being branded about. He said the N48bion is actually the lump sum for the payment of 2017-2019 liability.
The leader of the Group, Daniel Mozie, while speaking to The Guardian yesterday said they had picketed the Ministry severally, and extracted a promise from the Minister, Sabo Nanono, and Permanent Secretary, Dr Mu’azu Abdulkadir, to pay up but to no avail.
He lamented that some contractors have lost their lives due to their inability to bear the harassment from financial institutions from where they had borrowed money to fund the contracts since they were not given mobilisation money.
He said the actual sum being owed contractors, who participated in the 2018 project, is about N17billion and not N48billion being branded about. He said the N48bion is actually the lump sum for the payment of 2017-2019 liability.