CONTRACTOR THREATENS TO SUE SENATOR KALU FOR SAYING THAT THE ROAD IKPEAZU PAOD HIM WAS PAID BY FG

UGOCHUKWU UGOJI-EKE, UMUAHIA

The managing Director of ECKLEEN INTEGRATED SERVICES the contractor that handled the 2.3 Osusu road Project in Aba, Mr Uzoma Onuoha has threatened to sue former Governor of the state, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu for claiming that the road was done by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

Onuoha who spoke to newsmen in Aba while reacting to the claims by Senator Kalu described the claims as the Mother of all lies and one from the pit of hell.

He wondered how someone could wake up over night to claim a job done by the state government under Governor Okezie Ikpeazu.

“It is to my utmost consternation and it also shocked me to my marrow that somebody will just come up overnight to claim a job I did for the Abia State Government of which I have the documents to substantiate my claims”.

Engr Onuoha said, “This contract, Osusu road Project was awarded in the year 2018 and since then, I have never had anything to do with the NDDC”.

While displaying documents issued his company by the Abia State Government for the job, he disclosed that the contract which was awarded in 2018 was duely supervised by the state ministry of works.

According to him, no official of the NDDC at any point in time, monitored or supervised the project and expressed deep shock and annoyance that the former Governor is now laying claim that the road was done by the NDDC.

Onuoha said, “Even the day road was commissioned, there was no representative from that outfit even during the time of construction, we never saw anybody from the NDDC, it has all been the ministry of works Abia State that has been supervising what I did”.

He described Senator Kalu’s claim as fallacious, misleading and political propaganda aimed at scoring cheap popularity.

The contractor made it clear that he is not a registered contractor with NDDC and has never handled any Project for the Commission, stressing that he is a business man working for the Abia State Government.

“This claim is fallacious, misleading and a lie from the pit of hell”Engr.Uzoma Onuoha said.