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The Association of Police Contractors have appealed to the Federal Ministry of Finance over non-payment of money for executed contracts.
The association’s president, Mr Steven Ogbonna, said that members were already living below standard of living as Nigerian citizens because of non-payment for contracts executed for the Nigeria Police since 2010.
Ogbonna appealed to President Bola Tinubu and other relevant authorities to intervene in the matter so that they could be paid to save his members from starving and dying.
He told journalist that the Nigeria Police awarded the contracts of houses and barracks renovation across the nation to the members of the association in 2010 including supply of gadgets.
The association president said, “We duly executed the projects because we were given a time limit to get the jobs delivered. Some were to be delivered within 12 weeks and some within eight weeks.
“We so much had confidence in Nigeria Police because we have been working for them over the years without experiencing any delay in payment”.
Ogbonna said that the contractors obtained loans to execute some of the projects and delivered without compromising the agreement reached with the Police.
He said that members of the association also executed a project in 2009 with balance of the payment still pending before the one of 2010 was awarded to them.
According to him, members had visited various Inspectors-General of Police at different times on the matter and had undergone several verifications by the Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit (PICA).
Ogbonna added that the Presidential Committee Initiative on Continuous Audit inherited the debt through Debt Management of Nigeria, promising to get them paid in less than six months, but the promise is yet to be fulfilled till now.
He said, “We have been going there. We have staged different protests but never paid us”.
Ogbonna explained that the committee put in place has carried out investigation and confirmed that they were duly certified to execute the projects.
