{"id":59764,"date":"2025-01-20T06:37:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T06:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59764"},"modified":"2025-01-20T06:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T06:37:26","slug":"wike-declares-war-says-he-wont-pay-satellite-towns-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/20\/wike-declares-war-says-he-wont-pay-satellite-towns-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike Declares war, says he won&#8217;t pay Satellite Towns Contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has declared that contractors under the Satellite Towns Development Department (STDD), will not receive payments for services he described as poorly executed.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a media parley on Sunday, Wike criticized waste management contractors for failing to deliver on their obligations, despite significant expenditures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not pay contractors who do not do their jobs. Go see the refuse on the roads, like what I saw in Bwari earlier today. You cannot submit papers for payment when there is no evidence of work done. Which trash did you remove?,\u201d he questioned.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister revealed that the FCT spends over N1.2 billion monthly on contracts but expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of visible results.<\/p>\n<p>He specifically referenced his visit to Bwari, where he observed uncollected waste, and said he had alerted the Council Chairman and STDD Coordinator to the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou want to blackmail me after spending more than N1.2 billion in a month without any results. I won\u2019t allow that. I cannot be intimidated or blackmailed. Things must change,\u201d Wike asserted.<\/p>\n<p>He also criticized contractors for requesting funds for streetlight maintenance when basic infrastructure remained in disrepair. \u201cWhy are you asking for maintenance funds when there was no light in the area the last time I passed through?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Minister\u2019s comments come amid reports of protests by STDD waste management employees over six months of unpaid salaries.<\/p>\n<p>The aggrieved workers, under the STDD Waste Contractors Forum, claimed that delayed payments for services such as cleaning, solid waste removal, and janitorial work were causing financial distress.<\/p>\n<p>John Okafor, a representative of the contractors, recently stated that the non-payment has made it difficult to meet their obligations, including paying workers\u2019 wages.<\/p>\n<p>However, Wike maintained that only contractors who deliver results would be considered for payment going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has declared that contractors under the Satellite Towns Development Department (STDD), will not receive payments for services he described as poorly executed. Speaking during a media parley on Sunday, Wike criticized waste management contractors for failing to deliver on their obligations, despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59765,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59764\/revisions\/59765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}