Govt.
Approves N222.1bn Trans-Kalabari Road Contract.
Rivers State Executive Council has approved the award of
a contract for the construction of the main Trans-Kalabari Road project at
N222.1bn.
The council approved the contract during its meeting on
Wednesday, May 15, presided over by Governor Siminalayi Fubara, and attended by
the deputy Governor, Prof Ngozi Odu, and other members at the Government House.
Speaking after the meeting, the Rivers State Commissioner
for Information and Communications, Warisenibo Joseph Johnson, said the project
would be funded with savings from the Internally Generated Revenue.
Johnson said that a 30 percent mobilization fee had
already been paid for the project designed to be completed within 32 months,
adding that the contractor was expected to move men and materials to the site
immediately.
Johnson in a statement signed by the Chief Press
Secretary to the Governor, Nelson Chukwudi, said that the contractual sum of
N222.1 billion was bigger than what was being spent on the Port Harcourt Ring
Road project.
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