The Federal Government on Thursday threatened to revoke the clean cookstoves contract, that the former president GEJ approved few days before leaving office on May 29th , if the contractor fails to meet up with the agreement term. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Environment, Mrs Fatima Mede, made the threat while fielding questions from newsmen as part of activities to mark the World Environment Day in Abuja.
Mede said that the Federal Government had paid the contractor 15 per cent mobilisation fees of N1.3billion to the company, Renewable Energy Services Ltd handing the project. NAN recalls that the Federal Executive Council had in November, 2014 approved 9.2billion to buy 750,000 clean cookstoves and 18,000 wonderbags for rural women. According to her, the ministry is still trying to verify the quantity of the stoves before accepting the supply. “What he supplied to us in not up to 15 per cent, we have written to him that what he supplied to us is not up to our agreement. “We have written to him for us clarify the supply and count the supply physically before we accept them,’’
NAN
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