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Executive Order 5: FG begins audit of construction sites

23rd November 2018
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President Muhammadu Buhari says the Federal Government has commenced the audit of construction sites to ascertain the level of compliance with Executive Order 5 targeted at improving local content in public procurement.

Buhari said this in Abuja on Friday at the opening ceremony of the 60thAnniversary Colloquium of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE).

The theme of the colloquium is “Re-Engineering the Engineers for Optimum National Economic Growth and Development.”

Buhari, represented by the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, said the implementation committee of the executive order set up by the ministry had started work.

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He said that the committee had conducted a snap audit of 77 works construction sites and 50 housing sites.

“The idea is to ascertain the number of foreigners employed on the sites and whether they have their work permit for the work they are undertaking.

“The report shows that  there 8,950 workers on the 77 sites, out of which 227 are foreigners and 8,723 are Nigerians.

“On the housing sites, the report shows that there are 41,360 workers and no foreigner was found working on those sites,” he said.

He said the ministry had  gone beyond that, adding that  it had  commissioned a more detailed and full audit of all construction sites and currently awaiting the result of the findings.

The minister said that the Executive Order 5 was issued to ensure that the economic benefits of the  Federal Government infrastructural development were maximised for the benefit of Nigerians.

The president, therefore, called for the cooperation of the NSE in the implementation of the order toward  achieving long term  prosperity of the country.

He said that the Federal Government was currently undertaking a massive infrastructural renewal programme abandoned for a few decades.

“I speak on projects like the Kano-Maiduguri Highway, the Enugu-Port Harcourt Highway, the East-West Road, the Lagos-Ibadan Highway, the Benin-Okene-Lokoja Highway, the second Niger Bridge and the Loko-Oweto Bridge.

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“I speak also of the difficult projects that appeared to have defied  every attempt to start them like the Bodo-Bonny Bridge which has now commenced and the Mambila Hydro Power Project whose contract has been signed.

“These projects and many others like the rail project from Lagos to Kano, the Port Harcourt to Maiduguri and the air and sea ports at various levels  of completion will form the foundation for building prosperity for Nigeria.

“These foundations will be so strong that they will ensure that we are able in the near and long term to deal with adverse economic seasons,” he said.

He said that the strong foundations would help to diversify the Nigerian economy away from oil and open new opportunities of prosperity for Nigerians in sectors like tourism, agriculture, transportation, logistics and manufacturing.

In his remarks, Mr Adekunle Mokuolu, the President of NSE,  said the colloquium was to reflect on the journey of the society since its inception six decades ago.

He said that the society had witnessed astronomical growth in branch network with a total of 75 across the globe.

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