The projects are in Madagali, Gombi and Jada Local Government Areas
More insights into the factors responsible for the precarious power situation in the country emerged on Sunday when the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) announced that it had discovered six failed dam projects in Adamawa.
Bukar Muhammed, COREN?s Engineering Regulation Monitoring Desk Officer in the Yola zone, made the revelation in Yola.
According to him, the failed dam projects were discovered during some inspection tours conducted by some members of the Council.
COREN is a regulatory body set up to regulate the practice of engineering in all aspects and ramifications in Nigeria.
“During our inspection visits to the construction sites of earth dams for irrigation and livestock in Madagali, Gombi and Jada Local Government Areas, we discovered that the construction works are not up to standard,” he said.
“In some sites we visited, we discovered that some sections of the dams, which were built last year, had collapsed, while some parts had been washed away by water.”
Muhammed said that the earth dam projects were jointly executed by the Adamawa State Government and a construction firm, Sinalco Engineering.
He said that an invitation letter, demanding appropriate professional explanations on the execution of the projects, had been sent to the state government and the company.
Muhammed added that a major construction firm, PW Nigeria Ltd., was also invited for explanations on some construction works in the state.
“We also invited PW construction company on its activity in the state. We also sent a letter to the AmericanUniversity of Nigeria over its ongoing five-star hotel and international conference room projects,” he added.
Muhammed, who noted that over one hundred engineers had been registered in the state in the past two years, stressed that the lack of maximum co-operation of construction companies in the state was hindering the fulfilment of the council?s assignment.
