The order was given up infraction of Nigeria’s procurement laws.

Mr Amaechi provided the instruction to the Chinese building and construction company in a letter exclusively acquired by Premium Times, outdated October 14, 2021.

The letter was signed on behalf of Mr Amaechi by J.A Yusuf, Director of Rail Transport Services at the transport ministry.

The contracts remain in connection with the covering the Lagos-Kano and Kaduna-Kano sections. According to the letter, the minister carefully picked the companies in accordance with what Mr Yusuf described as “Local Content Policy of the Nigerian federal government”.

Entitled ‘Local Content Policy on Construction Materials and Equipment’, the ministry claimed that it got Expression of Interest from the different business it listed in connection with the railway job. The ministry even more directed the building and construction business to welcome the hand-picked business noted in the letter for contractual engagement.

Aside from sending the list of hand-picked companies to the building company, Mr Amaechi, through the Ministry of Transportation, attached the letter a quote showing the cost of buying products in the local market. The quote likewise noted all of the business and the specification and system of products they are anticipated to provide for the construction company.

In addition, the quote detailed the quantity of materials each company is expected to supply, in addition to the ‘market value’ of the materials. Quick checks conducted on the status of the companies revealed that they are domiciled mostly in Kano, Kaduna and Port Harcourt.

Experts at CCECC have actually expressed worry over the controversial letter, including that it is in breach of the nation’s procurement laws. A source informed this paper that CCECC management is disrupted by the advancement, and has discovered it quite hard to deal with.

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