Contract was awarded to a company through a letter referenced AD/NDBDA/C/20/12/003 and dated 18th October, 2012 with a completion period of 6 ½ weeks.
rnExamination of payment vouchers revealed that the sum of N35,790,339.22 paid to the contractor included contingency provisions of N3,509,560.00. Neither the reason for the inclusion nor justification for utilization of the contingency sum was provided.

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During site inspection, it was observed that some provisions of the BEME were not carried out as stated. These provisions constituted job not done and the value, including the payment of contingency without detailed evidence of utilization, was put at N13,693,866.28.