The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Thursday, revealed how “political contractors” gave him migraine headache.
Wike disclosed that these political contractors are determined to sabotage his efforts of providing infrastructural development in the capital city.
The Minister spoke during the official flag-off of the installation of Integrated (Hybrid) Solar Lighting in the Districts of Abuja city and expressways under the Light up Abuja program: Lots I and II.
Wike said money was being disbursed to these contractors without any result to show, hence he took a bold decision to stop it.
He said: “Today’s event is a very difficult one, difficult in the sense that this is one project, though it’s very important, but has given us a lot of headache. Headache not in the conceptualization, but headache how it will work.
“Knowing in this room, people are always sabotaging efforts of government. Since I’ve been here, it’s a concern for me and my team. But we felt that we must take up the challenge.
“If I tell you how much we spend every month, every week, fines, maintenance of this, maintenance of this, and it wasn’t it. These contractors are politicians, they are political contractors.
“You don’t even know whom they are. You don’t even know where their equipment are but you keep on paying and paying and paying and paying. And we are not getting any results.
“So I said that comes to an time. And part of leadership is to take a decision. It doesn’t matter whether that decision will favor everybody or not. But let it be a decision that will lead to improvement, be fair.”
FCT: Political contractors give me headache, sabotage my efforts – Wike