The Federal Government has terminated the underperforming Abuja-Lokoja road contracts following an exhaustive performance review. The Minister of Works, David Umahi, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the meeting held with the Ministry and selected contractors, and said the contractors are working on the Lokoja-Shintaku-Dekina and reconstruction of the Okene-Ajaokuta road corridor in Kogi state.

Umahi, who was represented by Mr. Mohammed Ahmed, Director, Press and Public Relations, revealed that some of the contracts were mutually terminated. He listed the contracts to include the provision of culverts and drains in a flood-prone area on the Federal Road Network in the North-Central Zone: Section 2, Abuja–Lokoja.

The Minister said that the ministry also decided that the contract for the rehabilitation of Lokoja Shintaku-Dekina-Ayingba road, contract No. 7239, being handled by TEC Engineering Company Nigeria Ltd should go the way of others.

He, however, said that the ministry added a mutual termination clause for supervisory consultancy services due to a lack of funding. Umahi thanked President Bola Tinubu for his kind interventions along the entire 179km x 2 (358km) Abuja-Lokoja road. He, however, said that the ministry added a mutual termination clause for supervisory consultancy services due to a lack of funding.