The Minister of State Petroleum Resources, Ekperikpe Ekpo has warned contractors handling the 614-kilometer Ajaokuta, Kaduna, Kano gas pipelines project against defaulting on the promised July/August 2024 completion deadline.
In a statement on Thursday, the spokesperson for the Minister, Louis Ibah, said the deadline was issued while the minister was on a tour of the project on Thursday.
The minister lamented the slow pace of work and demanded from the contractor handling segment one of the projects when the project would be completed.
“The July and August deadlines should be sacrosanct, and there should be no excuse; that is what we are going to look at,” Ekpo stated.
Responding, the Chairman of Oilserv Limited, Emeka Okuosa, one of the project’s contractors, said the project would be completed for inauguration between July and August 2024.
He, however, listed some of the challenges slowing down the AKK gas pipeline to include insecurity in neighbouring Niger State and a right-of-way characterised by rocks and rivers.
DAILY POST recalls that the AKK gas pipeline project construction commenced in July 2020 with an expected completion in 2022.
