The Federal Government has revoked a section of the Abuja-Kaduna highway contract handled by Julius Berger over irregularities.
The Minister of Works, David Umahi, made this known during the inauguration of the rehabilitation of the Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano road on Thursday in Abuja.
Umahi said that the road contract was awarded to Julius Berger in 2018 under former President Muhammadu Buhari for N391 billion.
The minister said that the Kaduna-Zaria section has been completed and the Zaria-Kano section is almost completed, however, the Abuja-Kaduna section has witnessed a slow completion rate in six years.
“We inherited about 240km in section I and we extended another two kilometres towards Kogi state to repair the road because it is an eyesaw.
“So we have an additional 7.5km added to the original 750km, the cost that we gave to Julius Berger for this section is N349 billion or N2.03…
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