Minister of Education Prof. Tahir Mamman has pledged that the 17-year-old abandoned National Library would be completed and inaugurated by President Bola Tinubu administration.
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The minister made the pledge during a tour of the edifice in company of the National Librarian, Prof. Chinwe Anunobi, and some senior directors of the Federal Ministry of Education.
The contract of the library, which lies fallow on Plot 35, Cadastral Business District, in the Federal Capital Territory, was awarded to Reynolds Construction Company in 2006 under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, for N8.9 billion with an initial completion period of four years.
The firm was said to have requested an upward review because of the decision of the Federal Government to incorporate new technology into the building.
The administration of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua then approved an upward review to the tune of N18b.
Seventeen years after the contract was first awarded, however, the building has yet to be completed.
Former education minister, Adamu Adamu handed the project to the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund) for completion.
The Federal Capital Territory Administration had at a time, raised the alarm that criminals were turning uncompleted buildings in the capital city into hideouts.
Addressing reporters after the tour of the Library, the minister said: “This project is too important for Nigerians and we have this project uncompleted for close to 20 years. We know the importance of a library not to talk about a national library.
“So, the decision is that we have a president who does not tolerate uncompleted projects anywhere. He is determined to deliver on what will bring progress and development and the national library is one of the major edifices anywhere in the world.
”So, the decision is that everyone involved must come back to the site.”
Asked about the cost required to complete the project, the minister said though there were issues surrounding the project but that it was being worked out as everyone involved would come together to review the cost.
“There are some issues here and there but the project will be completed in about 21 months.
”But we are urging them (Construction company) to deliver the project earlier because we’ve dragged it for too long and the project is too important for it to be dragged any further.
”So whatever obstacles in the project, we are determined to go over it and attend to it so it doesn’t become an obstacle,” he said.
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