Infoquest Nigeria Limited is now to complete the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano highway as the Federal Government has revoked the section of the road.
It would be recalled that the government had revoked section 2 of the road, which connects Abuja to Kaduna, from Julius Berger Construction Company over price dispute.
The Minister of Works, David Umahi, who announced the hiring of the company, said Infoquest was hired after the ministry secured a ‘No Objection’ of N252.89 billion from the Bureau of Public Procurement and would present the contract for ratification at the next sitting of the Federal Executive Council.
Umahi said the FG revoked the contract from Julius Berger Plc because it drastically reduced the pace of work on site and wrote a letter to the Federal Ministry of Works requesting for a review from N797bn to N1.5trn representing an increase of 88.21 per cent, adding the FG was not willing to pay.
The minister accused Julius Berger of being inconsistent, adding that a selective tendering process was used in which six contractors including Julius Berger Plc were invited to tender.
The six contractors are M/s Julius Berger Nig. Plc, M/s Hitech Construction Company Limited, M/s Infoquest Nigeria Limited, M/s CBC Nigeria Limited, M/s CCECC Nigeria Limited and M/s CGC Nigeria Limited.
“I am happy to announce that as at yesterday, we got “No Objection” from BPP for a total of N252.89 billion contract sum and I am very sure that FEC will give us approval at next sitting but let me say that we added 10.6 kilometers at the Kano axis to take the project to Malam Aminu Kano International Airport and we added another 5 kilometers towards Kogi and also full solar light installation to prepare the entire road for operation and maintenance concessioning,” he said.
