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An indigenous construction company, Ogugo Concepts and Solutions Limited has faulted the claim of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) that it used the National Assembly to coerce the commission to get paid for un-executed project.
In a statement signed and released on Monday by the Managing Director of Ogugo Concepts and Solutions Limited, Esuochi Ogbologuga, it stated that the false claim of NDDC had brought the firm to disrepute.
It further stated that it was disappointed that NDDC could have made such a false claim after the company had duly executed a project that was even adjudged by the host community and as well as the Bayelsa State office of the commission to be the best ever executed project by the interventionist agency in Bayelsa State.
The statement reads: “We read with dismay a publication in the Nation newspaper dated August 8, 2020 in which our firm Ogugo Concepts and Solutions Limited was listed as contractor that the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was coerced to pay by the National Assembly for jobs that were neither done nor completed.
“We wish to state for the records that the NDDC award our company a contract via letter dated May 10, 2019 referenced NDDCEDP/INS. PR/17/123 for emergency repair of failed and unmotorable section of Mike Okpookpor road in Kpansia, Bayelsa State which we executed and it was supervised by Bayelsa State office of the Commission”.
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It was also stated that the project awarded to Ogugo Concepts and Solutions Limited was verified upon completion by the Bayelsa State office of the commission after which an Interim Payment Certificate of N344,785,506.02 was issued for the value of job certified net of deductions.
Moreso, the company added that
the Acting Executive Director of NDDC for Projects, Dr Cairo Ojougboh also inspected the project on March 14, 2020 and certified it satisfactory before payment of N300, 029, 695.14 was made thereafter.
Meanwhile, the Managing Director of Ogugo Concepts and Solutions Limited, Esuochi Ogbologuga has demanded a retraction of the damaging publication made by NDDC and also urged the commission to set the records of the executed project straight.
“We request a statement of retraction for the damage done to our reputation, and that you should also set the records straight accordingly”, the statement concluded.
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