Contractors supplying food items, books, vegetables and other food items to the Federal Government College Ilorin have stage a protest over the non-payment for their supply to the school in 2010 and 2011.
The contractors carried placards Wednesday, saying variously, ‘Federal Ministry of Education, please pay us our money,’ ‘Honourable Minister of Education, we seek your quick intervention,’ ‘FGC Ilorin we are dying, pay us our money,’ among others.
The contractors who are 11 in number lamented that one of their members died as a result of nonpayment of the contract sum totaling N31 million.
Speaking on behalf of the contractors, Pastor Stephen B. Iwalaye, said they supplied the school since 2010 and 2011 but were yet to get their money.
“We supplied the food stuffs and books to the school during the two sessions and we have written severally but to no avail.”
Another contractor who spoke during the protest, Alhaja Rafat A. Olumo, said the bank she got loan from to supply her items had attempted to take over her house.
In his reaction during a telephone interview with our correspondent, the Principal of the school, Mr Isa Sulaiman Adamu, confirmed that the school was owing them but added that he inherited the debt because he just resumed to the school as principal in August this year.
