Former Principal Secretary to former Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and member representing Ideato North and South Federal Constituency
, Dr. Paschal Obi, has told the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Contracts awarded between 2011 -2019 that a contractor for a project designated ‘Sundry Capital Project’ at Area K World Bank, Owerri absconded without executing the $110 million project.
The panelists discovered that most of the major contracts awarded under the Okorocha administration did not have contract agreements executed by the government and the contractors while contract sums were fully paid for. Responding to a question on why the sum of N650 million was paid each for construction of the new ministries of transport and lands offices without the contract being awarded while the building could not be found anywhere in the state, the witness said he was not in a position to know the projects executed because he was not in charge of project inspection.
But Obi’s response to that was that he was only a civil servant and was bound to carry out instructions given him by the Governor. Obi insisted that the projects were in existence and that the contracts were given to three different contractors who he said delivered.
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