Nasarawa state Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has threatened to sanction contractors that abandoned projects awarded to them in the state.
Chairman of the board, Alhaji Muhammed Danazumi, issued the warning yesterday when he held a meeting with contractors in Lafia.
He expressed dismay over the failure of some contracting firms in the state to move to site three months after government had paid them 15 per cent mobilisation fees.
“We awarded these contracts and agreed that the projects would be completed in three months time; but here we are, still discussing with contractors moving to site,” he said.
He warned that government will not tolerate such habit from any contractor so they should either move to site immediately and start work or face revocation of the contract.
The chairman added that the board had set up a team to go round the project sites to monitor the progress of work, stressing that the monitoring team would begin work next week and warned that any contractor not found on site would have himself or herself to blame.
Representing Canonic Associates, a consulting firm supervising one of the contracts, Mr. Kasimu Tukur, also condemned the practice of abandoning projects by some contractors.
He said some of the contractors, however, attributed their inability to start work to the failure by their banks to release the mobilisation fees to them.
