Jigawa Awards Over N220bn Road Projects, Warns Against Substandard Job

The director general of Jigawa State Due Process and Projects Monitoring Bureau , Dr Muhammad Kasim, has threatened to blacklist any contractor found using non-authentic financial documents or doing substandard work in the state.

The DG issued the warning while speaking during a bid opening for the award of a contract for the renovation and construction of 46 roads covering over 738.9 km across the state.

He explained that suspicion was raised at various times regarding Performance Bank guarantee, advance Payment Guarantee, and other related contractual financial security documents presented by some companies. In view of that, measures have been taken to ensure that every document presented by any company is verified and authenticated.

“So we encouraging contractors to always present the genuine documents obtained from reliable and reputable financial institutions, as any failure to do that is tantamount to attract blacklisting the affected company.

“We are also emphasizing for companies to make sure they abide by 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.

“ At the same time from Due Process and Projects Monitoring Bureau we assure the contractors that we will make sure the protection of contractors’ right including timely payment and other Government obligations for any awarded contract,” DG Due Process declared.

In his speech, the permanent secretary of Jigawa State 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, facilitate the movement of goods and services for social and economic development, 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.