The projects, including road contract awards for Urhokpe Street at Kokori Inland and others, are scattered across Ethiope East council area of the state.
When the matter, FHC/ASB/CS/1/2021, was called up for hearing, the Presiding Judge, Justice T. B. Adegoke, admitted and marked the request letter, signed by O.E. Emetanjo, asking for public records of the abandoned projects, dated November 11th, 2020 and January 12th, 2021 respectively, as ‘Exhibit AO’.
M. O. Adah, Solicitor of the A.A. Oronkoya and Co, and counsel to the litigant, Austine Onori, who doubles as the chairman of the Mega Party of Nigeria (MPN) in the state, told the court that the Commission violated Section 2, of the Freedom of Information Act 2011, by hiding the amount of money paid to the contractors, handling the abandoned projects, especially the controversial Urhokpe Inland road.
He averred, “the commission had since November 13, 2020, when the request letter was received, failed to provide the Certified True Copy (CTC) of the contract agreement between NDDC and the contractors.”
He maintained that the seven day notice that was served on the commission to furnish the law firm with necessary information aboit the said projects, was jettisoned.
The matter was adjourned till Thursday, February 25, this month, for further hearing.
