FG issues 14-day termination notice to CCECC on Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway

The Federal Ministry of Works has issued a 2 weeks’ notice of termination to China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) over the state of the 43-km Aba-Port Harcourt expressway. The Minister of Works, Sen. David Umahi, who made the declaration during a supervision visit to the South-South and South East expressed displeasure over the recalcitrance […]

The Federal Ministry of Works has issued a 2 weeks’ notice of termination to China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) over the state of the 43-km Aba-Port Harcourt expressway.

The Minister of Works, Sen. David Umahi, who made the declaration during a supervision visit to the South-South and South East expressed displeasure over the recalcitrance of the contractor in complying with the new construction codes and regulations which are aimed at building enduring road infrastructure for the nation.

In a statement by his media aide, Orji Uchenna Orji, Umahi decried the poor construction methodology deployed by CCECC on the rehabilitation works on the Aba bound of the Rehabilitation of Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, contract No. 6252.

He said the termination notice was issued to the contractor due to disregard to the various warning letters issued over their poor construction performance, thus, ordered the project to be descoped and re-awarded to a competent contractor.

“If you get to Port Harcourt end, which they did about two years or thereabout, the entire road has almost totally failed. We have been writing them to maintain this road. They have refused, and so I have to take responsibility and make a decision. Number one, the Port Harcourt bound is descoped, no longer going to be done by CCECC. I will direct the Ministry of Works to scout out for very qualified indigenous contractors to handle the Port Harcourt bound,” he said.

 

In another development, the minister has commended the quality of work on the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Enugu-Port Harcourt Dual Carriageway, Section II – Umuahia Tower-Aba Rail/ Road crossing in Abia State, Contract No. 6209 handled by M/S Arab Contractors O. A. O Nigeria Limited.