Umahi orders arrest of contractor over abandoned Asaba-Onitsha road

Dissatisfied implicit the firm’s dilatory gait of work, the Minister of Works, Engr. David Umahi, has ordered the apprehension of the Managing Director of Hartland Nigeria Limited implicit its nonaccomplishment to implicit the 11-kilometre Asaba-Onitsha roadworthy task contempt receiving astir N14 billion.

The task covers the agelong from Summit Junction successful Asaba, Delta State, to Head Bridge successful Onitsha, Anambra State.

Umahi, accompanied by the Delta State Commissioner for Works (Rural Roads) and Public Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, and elder officials of the Ministry of Works, issued the directive during an inspection of the First Niger Bridge and adjoining roadworthy projects on Thursday evening, ordering ministry officials to way down and apprehension the MD successful bid for the contractor to instrumentality to the tract and implicit the project.

While accusing Hartland of abandoning the task aft completing lone astir 40 per cent of the agreed scope, helium expressed interest implicit the deteriorating information of the roadworthy and the vandalisation of captious span components.

“On the Summit Junction to this Head Bridge, we gave it to the co...