Police Affairs Ministry owes contractors N7.4 billion

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Saturday, November 17th, 2012

Aggrieved contractors on Tuesday
invaded the ministry of police of
affairs to protest unpaid contracts
estimated at N7.4 billion.

The contractors lamented that the ministry owe
them for contracts
done since 2005 even as they vowed a showdown with
the officials
of the ministry.

During the Tuesday’s protest, the contractors invaded the office of
the ministry’s director of finance Mr Adewale Karaki when they could
not get hold of the minister, Caleb
Olabode.

It took the intervention of a police detachment led by ASP A.

Momodu to rescue the Director of Finance and bring the situation
under control.

while occupying the office of the Director of
Finance, It was
gathered Mr. Karaki was made to make a phone call, to
the head of
the officials processing the payment with the phone put on
speaker
to convince the protesting contractors that the payment was
actually
being processed.

Mr Karaki was then forced by the
contractors to order the officials
that payments under N3m should be
completed right away while
those above N4m should commence today
(Wednesday).

According to Karaki, the delay in the payments was due to
wrong
clarification of those earlier processed for payment which was

already being corrected.

The contractors had accused the
Ministry officials and the police
headquarters of playing politics with
the payments accusing them of
processing new 400 contracts when over
2,720 abandoned police
projects scattered nationwide.
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