DESOPADEC Contract: Those who forwarded report to ILOT misrepresented facts -A & J Construction

An indigenous construction firm, A & J Construction Company Limited has refuted allegation by Itsekiri Leaders of Thought, ILOT that it collected huge sum of money from Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC for the sand-filling, drainage /landscaping within the Hostel and Dining Hall section of Ogidigben Grammar School, Ogidigben in Warri South-West Local Government Area without executing a commensurate work.                        

Project /Site Manager of A & J Construction, Mr. Tuoyo Igbiaye in a statement after conducting Newsmen and members of Concerned Itsekiri Social Media Activists, CISMA led by her Coordinator, Prince Jerry Onesan round the project site declared, "there is an obvious error in the assertion that the reclamation of swamps by way of sand-filling /drainage /landscaping within the Hostel and Dining Hall section of the Ogidigben Grammar School awarded to our firm was not done and monies paid, it is not true. We think the people that forwarded that report misrepresented the fact of the matter for their own reason or had little or no knowledge of the fact".

While noting that his firm still reveres the Itsekiri Leaders of Thought, ILOT, Mr. Igbiaye stressed, "the fact of the matter is that the swamp reclamation work i.e. sand-filling, which is the major aspect of the job is about 85% complete. All materials for landscaping i.e interlocks and kerbs have long been produced at site but for the recent Ugborodo crisis which made us to demobilize from site, it would have been a done deal so long as DESOPADEC released fund".

He listed landmark projects successfully executed by A & J Construction for Delta State government in Itsekiri communities to include Delta State Housing Estate in Ogidigben, which was built in 3 months, swamp reclamation, fencing /landscaping of the estate at Ogidigben, construction of Ugborodo Skill Acquisition Centre, done within four months, construction of 2 Hostel and Dining Hall in Ogidigben Grammar School and the extension of 33KVA lines from Sapele to Abigborodo and Arun Owurun with 2 sub stations.  

He also explained that contrary to reports that monies were collected for LED TV contract in Obodo and Deghele communities for jobs not done, contracts for the aforesaid jobs were still being processed and contractor has not mobilized to site, hence wondered how payments would have been made for such contracts as claimed.               

According to Mr. Igbiaye, his company is still being owed for the LED TV job completed and running in Ode-Ugborodo, Ogidigben and Ugbuwangue communities.

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