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NSIB Abandoned Project:.Reps Set To Blacklist Integrated Services Development Ltd for Failure to Appear before its Committee
Nigerian House of Representatives Committee on Aviation Technology may recommend the blacklisting of Integrated Services Development Ltd for failure to appear before the Committee to defend why he abandoned the project for the remodelling of Nigeria Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) Headquarters in Abuja which was awarded in year 2020.
This was contained in a press statement issued by the chairman committee on Aviation Technology Rt. Hon. Abiodun Akinlade on Friday in Abuja.
According to the statement “the Federal Ministry of Aviation awarded contract for the construction of NSIB Headquaters to Integrated Services development Ltd for the sum of nine hundred and thirty nine million one hundred and sixty three thousand sixty naira (#939,163,060.43) in May 2022 whereas, the sum of #788,780,057.56 representing 97% (less vat and tax) of the contract sum was paid to the contractor in August 2022”.
“To the dismay of the committee members while on oversight to the NSIB Headquarters in Abuja, the contractor was never seen on site and the level of work done was put at 27% by the site consultants”.
Following this development, the House committee on Aviation Technology Chaired by Rt. Hon. Abiodun Akinlade had invited the Managing Director of the Company for more than 3 times with no response.
With this press statement the Committee has therefore resolved to recommend that the contract be revoked and the company be blacklisted for its inability to honour the contractual agreement and coupled with lack of capacity to execute the contract.
The Committee also resolved that relevant agencies of Government will be asked to recover money paid to Integrated Services Development Limited as this will serve as a lesson for those that think they can collect Government money and abscond.
