The Rescue administration of Governor Simon Lalong, on Wednesday accused certain technocrats of frustrating the work of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up to investigate the activities of the past administration.

The special adviser on Media and Publicity to the Governor, Mr. Dan Manjang while speaking to news men in Jos said,” Some memos submitted before the commission by ministries, departments, agencies and individuals have not been supplied with the necessary documents to fast track the Commission’s work”.

Making this position known, Manjang said these actions are deliberately geared towards frustrating the efforts of the Government as valuable documents were not accessible by Judicial Commission of Inquiry.

He said, “Some of these civil servants are bent on expending the allotted time given to the Commission, the team of personnel in this Commission are full of experienced people and may have a way of shortening the time, but most worrisome are some of the delays being encountered in tendering vital documents which I must appear to be deliberate tactics to make nonsense of what is currently being done”.

However, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works, Engr. Sunday Hyat, told the Commission that about 64 roads were awarded as contracts by the Ministry, within the northern senatorial district of the state, decrying that some of the projects have suffered delays especially the “Bukuru-Lowcost, Nyango-Gyel road awarded in 2008 to Qumecx Nigeria Limited at the cost of N1.2 billion, which was subsequently terminated in 2012.

According to Hyat, the contract was re-awarded in December 2012 to Jodalson Global Limited at the cost of N204 million, but was twice reviewed upwards in 2013, to the tune of N1.4 billion (albeit with a revised scope of work).

He maintained that following this, the contractor failed to mobilise quickly to site and the level of work was left at 45%, as such the work had to be terminated (with the certificate of violation issued to the contractor).

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