By Sarauniya Usman,Abuja
The management of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) has assured contractors handling its projects that they would all be paid latest by March 19.
An official of the Public Affairs Unit, FHA, Mr Kenneth Chigelu,
made this known in a statement in Abuja.
Chigelu said this came about as a fall out of a meeting with the contractors on Tuesday.
“The management of FHA just rose from a meeting with our contractors, with a resolution that all contractors who have completed their jobs will be receive their payments latest by Friday, March 19.
“Management did not deliberately withhold the payment to our contractors with whom the authority have long standing good business relationship.
“The little delay in payment is as a result of management’s stance on due diligence before payments are made.
“It is good to note that this issue have been amicably resolved,” he said.
It would be recalls that contractors numbering over 200, who handled the construction of Abuja Mass Housing Project for the authority, on Tuesday, staged a protest against the agency over non-payment of N1.5 billion debt owed them.
The contractors, operating under the aegis of Federal Housing Authority Contractors Association, protested the delay in payment of funds after the projects had been completed.
They pointed out that they had not been paid for the Abuja Mass Housing Project in Zuba, totaling N1.5 billion as well as the Apo housing project awarded in 2011 and completed since February, 2020.
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