The Managing Director of Calabar Channel Management Limited (CCM), Mr. Bart Van Eenoo, has said his company is not afraid of a probe instituted by some maritime stakeholders.
In a statement yesterday in Abuja, Eenoo urged those doubting the capability of his company to execute the contract to ask questions, instead of maligning the company.
The company chief said he was at the headquarters of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) in Lagos to pay for the Calabar channel contract.
He said the company had competent manpower of about 8,000 workers, including those recruited from Boskalis and Dredging International of Belgium.
Eenoo wondered why detractors portrayed CCM as incapable to execute the project.
The company chief said the CCM consortium, led by Messrs Niger Global Engineering and Technical Company Limited (NGET), had the world’s number one dredging company – Royal Boskalis of Holland and Westminster Dredging – as its partners.
He said this showed the seriousness CCM attached to the project.
Eenoo said CCM had not demobilised from site, as reported, adding that contrary to the claims by the Calabar chapter of the Shippers Association, its office is located at 101, Ndidem Usang Iso Street in Calabar, the Cross River State capital.
According to him, the importance CCM attaches to the project, considering its economic significance to the nation, the Northcentral, Southeast and Southsouth, made its technical and financial partners to fund the project until a week ago when the NPA started paying for last year’s fourth quarter certified invoices for works executed.
Eenoo said: “Even when we were not paid, as provided in the contract agreement, our technical and financial partners were funding the project to ensure that there was no lull in activities. So for, a group of persons are alleging that we are not on site and that our address is unknown. That is sheer mischief.”
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