Nasarawa State House of Assembly has urged Governor Abdullahi Sule to stop further payment to the contractor handling the 13.45km Rinze-Ngare- Ancho Baba- Andaha road in Akwanga LGA over alleged poor work by the contractor.

The House Committee Chairman on INEC, Multilateral Cooperation and Community Development, Mohammed Okpoku, gave the advice in Akwanga while inspecting the road.

Okpoku said that 85 per cent of the money received by the contractor out of the N209.3m contract sum did not tally with the work done so far.

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“To be sincere, we are not happy with the work done by the contractor handling the 13.45km Rinze-Ngare- Ancho Baba- Andaha road. The contractor said he received 85 per cent of the total contract sum, which means there is remaining only 15 per cent of the money to be completed by the state government. The work done did not tally or match the money received by the contractor. It is in view of this that we are directing the state government to henceforth stop giving the contractor his remaining balance until he does the needful,” he said.

Okpoku also called for the overhauling of Ngare- Ancho Bridge for the purpose of saving the lives of the people and boosting their socio-economic activities.

He said the committee was out to ensure that the projects were done according to specifications for the overall development of the state.

“We are out to ensure that quality works are done in order to justify the state government’s huge investment in rural development. And we want to ensure that no contractor short-changed the government,” he said.

Earlier, Mr Andrew Simon of Sergio Construction Company Limited, the contractor handling the construction of the road, confirmed that the company received 85 per cent of the total contract sum of N209.3 million.

The contractor assured that the work would be done according to specifications.