The Jigawa State Government has threatened that it will blacklist contractors that use un-authentic financial documents and substandard project execution in the state.
The Director-General Jigawa State Due Process and Projects Monitoring Bureau, Dr Muhammad Kasim, gave the warning while speaking during a bid opening for the award of 46 roads across the state.
The State will renovate existing and construct new roads covering over 738.9 km across the state.
Dr. Kassim explained that suspicion was raised at various times regarding poor Performance, issuance of fake Bank guarantee, advance Payment Guarantee, and other related contractual financial security documents presented by some companies.
He said the government has taken cogent measures in ensuring that in every document presented by any firm must be fully verified by the state.
“Taking these urgent steps is paramount just to entrench probity accountability, dedication, honesty and fear of God for us to encourage competent contractors who always present genuine documents obtained from reliable and reputable financial institutions, as failure to comply with our directives is tantamount to attract blacklisting the affected construction firms”
“Our goal was to emphasize on companies that meet up all contractual obligations and agreement in the cause of executing the job given to them by Jigawa State government including timely completions of the projects on schedule.”
He assured Contractors that the Due Process and Projects Monitoring Bureau “will ensure the protection of contractors’ right including timely payment and other Government obligations for any awarded contract.”
In his remark, the permanent secretary, Ministry of Works and Transport, Qs Ahmad Isa, said that as part of the commitment of Governor Umar Namadi’s administration to bridge the infrastructure gap, a bid contract for major renovation and reconstruction of 42 roads was opened.
He explained that the road projects with total length of over 738.9km will cost over N222.7 billion.
