{"id":79394,"date":"2021-03-29T16:42:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T15:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=79394"},"modified":"2021-03-29T16:42:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T15:42:20","slug":"abuja-kano-road-n212bn-per-kilometre-price-tag-blatantly-outrageous-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abuja-kano-road-n212bn-per-kilometre-price-tag-blatantly-outrageous-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja-Kano road: N2:12bn per kilometre\u00a0 price tag, blatantly outrageous-PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif;\">The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Monday, demanded immediate review of the 375 kilometer\u00a0Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-<wbr \/>Kano road reconstruction contract, following what it called \u201cthe unearthing of corrupt padding in the N797.23 billion contract recently approved by the Federal Executive Council, FEC.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201d This is even as the party called for an open probe into the alleged padding of the contract \u201cfrom the original N155 billion to an outrageous and indefensible N797 billion, with a whopping N642 billion apparently earmarked to be shared among corrupt officials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, spokesman of the PDP, the party noted that, \u201cwith the approved N797 billion, for a 375 kilometre road, the Buhari Presidency is claiming to be reconstructing a kilometre of road with an outrageous and inexcusable N2.12 billion; a huge slap on the sensibilities of Nigerians.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The statement further read: \u201cWhile our party restates our total support for the reconstruction of this very important road, the PDP insists that it will be against the interest of the nation to allow criminal elements in the Buhari administration to hide under the project to steal a staggering N642 billion which ought to be channeled to other projects that would benefit the people.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0\u201cOur nation was jolted by the level of corruption in the Buhari presidency wherein Mr. President could approve a fraudulent contract padding to the tune of N642 billion at the time our nation is battling with serious economic challenges and infrastructural stagnation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Monday, demanded immediate review of the 375 kilometer\u00a0Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano road reconstruction contract, following what it called \u201cthe unearthing of corrupt padding in the N797.23 billion contract&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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