Contractors
who supplied surgical, laboratory and scientific equipment for projects
under the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme in the FCT
have called on the territory’s minister to intervene in retrieving
payments owed them since 2014.
Under
the auspices of the Surgical/Medical Laboratory Allied and Scientific
Equipment Dealers and Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (SMASEDMAN)
the dealers blamed situations where contractors did not get paid after
executing their contracts on “lapses or misappropriation of fund on the
part of government officials.”
Speaking
at the association’s annual general meeting in Abuja, SMASEDMAN
president Nze Nwokeafor said its members “now have their property
confiscated by banks where they borrowed money to execute contracts.”
Some
of the contractors are in a bad state of health due to emotional stress
attributed to nonpayment of their money by FCT SURE-P, noted Nwokeafor
in a statement.
The
association wants FCT minister Mohammed Bello to expedite action to
“alleviate the sufferings of [SMASEDMAN] members by ensuring immediate
payment of these overdue debts.”
The association is in particular concerned about the fate of the debts owed them after the 2015 fiscal year ends by this March.
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