The Federal Government has restated its commitment to the speedy completion and delivery of all roads financed under the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC) Tax Credit Scheme.
Director of Highways, Construction and Rehabilitation, Folorunso Esan, stated this during the inspection of phases I and II of the Suleja-Minna Highway and reconstruction of the expanded Lambata-Lapai-Bida Road in Niger State being financed under the NNPC Tax Credit Scheme.
Esan said the Federal Government has released adequate fund to the contractors through the governance process established to ensure prompt delivery of the projects, adding that no contractor has any reason not to deliver the projects as scheduled.
It is recalled that during the presentation of cheque for the 21 roads by the NNPC on December 21, 2021, Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, said a governance process was being put in place and that required the ministry to do certification of the job certificates within five days.
He added on that occasion that as soon as the certificates were certified, they would be escalated to the NNPC, which would be required to pay the contractors within 30 days and that the staff of the ministry had certain number of days within which to act to certify the certificates.
