The federal executive council (FEC) has approved N2.1
billion for the completion of five projects at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University
(UNIZIK), Awka, Anambra state.
Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, announced
this to state house correspondents after the FEC meeting presided by Vice
President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday.
He said the university had awarded the projects earlier but
lacked funding to complete them.
“The significant thing about these contracts is the fact
that these were contracts that were awarded by the university itself, some in
2007, some in 2010, some in 2012 and some in 2015,” Mohammed said.
“But due to the
inability of the university to execute these projects, for reasons ranging from
lack of funding to other sundry reasons, they appealed to the federal
government to help complete the contracts.
“The contract, which was then awarded at the sum of N2.5
billion due to contract variation, cost of materials has now been jacked up to
N4.6 billion.
“In other words, the federal government is making available
to the university the sum of N2.1 billion to augment the contract, which is
awarded between 2007 and 2015, but was unable to complete.
“The five contracts
are the construction of students’ hostels, Type D, at Awka, which was augmented
in the sum of N120 million; construction of students’ hostel, Type A, at Nnewi,
for which we have to provide an extra N385 million.
“Construction students hostel, Type A, Awka; also, here
we’ve provided an extra N104 million and then the construction of Faculty
Building for Physical Science and Biosciences in the sum of N1.2 billion,
raising the contract sum from the original N983 million to N2.243 billion.
“Finally, construction and completion of min-stadium complex
in favour of another contractor, which we had to augment with the sum of N510
million.’’
Mohammed said the contracts were under the Needs Assessment
— an intervention fund that the federal ministry of education made available to
assist educational institutions all over the country.
The minister said the council approved the procurement of
landed property for the residence of the vice-chancellor of the Federal
University, Dutse, Jigawa state.
“This is a very short memo, which actually sought council’s
approval to provide accommodation for the vice chancellor; and of course, it
means the university was purchasing a property in Dutse, which will serve as
the official accommodation of the vice chancellor,” Mohammed said.
“After the due process has been observed, including whether
the seller has title and whether it was adequately covered by Certificate of
Occupancy, the council approved that a property be purchased for the sum of
N161, 250, 000, inclusive of 7.5 percent VAT, with the delivery period of two
weeks for the official residence of the Vice Chancellor of the Federal
University of Dutse, Jigawa State.’’
Mohammed said the council also approved a sum of
N847,502,000 for the award of a contract for digital interconnectivity among
identified ministries and other agencies of government through the Local Area
Network (LAN).
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