Non release of N4.3bn stalls completion of Ingawa-Dallaje dam

Muruako also identified lack of effective project supervision, lack of adequate design and bills at the time of award of the project and equipment vandalisation as other factors affecting the early completion of the dam.
The chairman who was represented by the Head of Planning Research and Statistics of the commission, Hajiya Maryam Ilyasu Mohammed, led the monitoring team to projects situated in the North-West
The Ingawa – Dallaje dam project which was awarded in November, 2009 with a completion period of 24 months is estimated to have only attained 50% completion as at the time of the physical verification exercise by the FRC.
At a meeting with the contracting firm, Messrs  Hasseni Engineering Services, Hajiya Maryam said the country can ill-afford such an important project to be abandoned due to non-adherence to due process in contract implementation and supervision.
“The project is very vital to the life of the host community as it would boost irrigation farming as well as provide rural electricity to the people. So all hands must be on deck to ensure the project is completed as soon as possible,” she said.
The FRC vowed to take up the matter with the appropriate authority to ensure that the contractor resumes work on the project in order to accelerate the completion in line with the Medium Term Expenditure Framework.
She stressed the need for the supervising agency, the Sokoto-Rima-River Basin Development Authority and the client ministry, the Federal Ministry of Water Resources to meet and determine the way forward for early completion of the project.
The Managing Director of Hasseni Engineering Services, Mr. Fahd Jammal, attributed his inability to meet the completion deadline to the redesigning and the relocation of the project site and inadequate funding of the project.
He said: “Despite the non-release of funds, our workers are on the project site. We appeal to the federal government to release funds to ensure speedy completion of the project.”