Leadership (Abuja)
Uchenna Awom
3 November 2009
Abuja — Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (PDP, Abia) has written the Senior Special Assistant to President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua , over what he described as the 'unresponsiveness of the Abia State Consultant of the Millennium Development (MDGs).
He asked the presidency to intervene and cause MDGs to send another consultant to the state to supervise the contracts.
An obviously angry Abaribe also complained about the sub-standard and poorly constructed furniture that Yam Habilmus, the contractor handling the supply of school furniture to primary schools in some communities in his Abia South Senatorial District, particularly the sets, supplied to Umunisii, Umuekechi and Akanu Primary schools.
Based on the poor job which has been rejected by the benefitting schools, he asked the government to prevail on the MDG to stop further payment to the contractor until standard furniture as specified by MDG is supplied.
Senator Abaribe in the letter of October 12, said that his complaint was based on the refusal of the host communities to accept the furniture supplied by Yam Habilmus, and the attendant protest of the benefitting school authorities on the poor quality of the furniture.
"We cannot accept a job so poorly done under the Federal Government programme.
I therefore, appeal that the MDG should stop further payment to Yam Habilmus Enterprises Nigeria Limited, until standard furniture as specified is supplied to the protesting primary schools.
"I will not fold my arms and watch people destroy the confidence of this present administration because of their selfish interests", he said.
However, the senator disclosed that the late development had given a lie to the unfortunate insinuation that senators and other lawmakers do corner the contracts meant for their constituencies.
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