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Some civil society organisations have condemned the N9.8bn contract for the rehabilitation of link roads and other facilities at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.
The Executive Council of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, on Friday, awarded the contract to Julius Berger Plc.
The Executive Secretary of the Federal Capital Development Authority, Shehu Ahmad, who briefed the press after the 9th Executive Council meeting held at the FCT Secretariat in Abuja, explained that the contractor had six months to complete the project.
Ahmad added that the contract included the rehabilitation of the link road, access road to the presidential kitchen, rehabilitation of the hangar housing the presidential aircraft, and the holding centre for visiting presidents.
“The second memo presented from the side of the FCDA has to do with some rehabilitation, the construction of the existing link road from Bill Clinton Drive to the Presidential Wing. If you have plied that road, you know that that road is in a state of disrepair, and then there are other facilities within the Presidential Wing.
“These have shown signs of distress and dilapidation, so they are going to be rehabilitated. There is a presidential kitchen, which is founded within the Presidential Wing. There is no access from the road that is coming from the main road into that place. We will rehabilitate that road.
“These are some of the facilities that are to be done, and then there are some lights, the runway lights, on the side of the presidential wing. And then there’s a guest house, a holding center, we call it, for visiting presidents, and of course, for the other usage”, he said.
