A construction company, Gorrion Engineering Ltd., has denied abandoning a road project in Akwa Ibom State, which led to flooding on the project.

A statement signed by the General Manager of Gorrion Engineering Ltd, Engr Yusuf Abdula addressed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the Vice President, Kashim Shettima, among others, described the attacks on the company as fake and unwarranted.

Gorrion Engineering Ltd. informed the President that all road projects carried out by them have been duly completed and commissioned.

The statement reads: “It has come to our attention the unwarranted attack on our company by some sponsored and highly compromised Facebook users, parading themselves as indigenes of Akwa Ibom State.

“We hereby state, unequivocally and with every sense of responsibility that is untrue, insinuations by a cross-section of some misinformed public that it abandoned the Ikot Ebak Stadium/Ikot Esse Road located in Akwa State, which led to the flooding of the road after commissioning

“It has come to our notice, that the misinformation being sponsored against the company on the avoidable flooding of the Stadium road in Essien Udim Local Government Area, a few days after it was commissioned.

“We state here without any reservations that we never abandoned the road project as erroneously being peddled by some highly compromised social media users; rather, we are happy to state that the road was duly completed and commissioned as expected.

“Let it also be known that if the appeal by the contractors to land-owners in the area to release a portion of their land, close to the road for the construction of a culvert that would see to the diversion of flood into the river, was acceded to (with the readiness of the contractor to even pay for it), the flooding would have been avoided.

“We hereby reject, in its entirety, a sponsored report and pictures of the flooded road by some highly compromised individuals on social media that the project is substandard.

“Claims by some ill-informed and biased commentators on the social media platforms that the job was substandard and that despite completion, it is still largely flooded and impassable by motorists, is far from the truth and a story meant only for the gods.

“All appeals to make available spaces to construct water channels that will give the project a befitting look were refused by the community members. Even in cases where few people were ready to offer us their lands, others discouraged them from doing so. It was this back and forth that eventually left us with no option but to go ahead with the project.

“Having successfully completed it, the flood expectedly emerged. But our men and equipment are at the site, trying to make sure that in the coming days, Ikot Ebak Stadium/Ikot Esse Road will wear an uncommon look in line with the directive of the Senate President, Chief Godswill Akpabio,” Abdula stated.

“We insist that the company, under its founder, has maintained a track record of delivering excellent jobs across the country as and when due,” the statement added. (Nigerian Tribune)

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