By Nsan Ndoma-Neji, Calabar
Former Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, yesterday urged contractors handling the ongoing 300-capacity Law Faculty auditorium of the University of Calabar, not to compromise standard, but execute the project according to specification and engineering design.
The former Senate Leader, who is also a former Chairman of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, also urged the contractors to hasten up with execution of the project so as to meet up with the project deadline.
The former lawmaker dropped the charge while inspecting the auditorium, which is undergoing execution at the University of Calabar.
The building project, facilitated by Ndoma-Egba during his tenure at the Nigerian Senate, when he served the Senate Leader.
He called on the contractors not to execute the project below standard but ensure that the project is executed according to specification.
Senator Ndoma-Egba, who was received at the project site by the Dean, Faculty of Law, Professor Cyril Ndifon, the Sub-Dean, Dr Gabriel Inyang, as well as the Faculty Officer, Mr Omang Robert and the project contractor, Mr Tawo Etta, stated that with quality auditorium and classrooms students pursuing law degree programme in the university are bound to do well.
Senator Ndoma-Egba, who was conducted round the three-storey building consisting of four lecture halls, with 300 seating capacity, and offices for the principal officers and lecturers in the faculty, urged the contractors to re-double thier effort so that they can meet up with the project deadline.
The erswhile NDDC board Chairman, who expressed satisfaction at the progress of work, stressed that the project is one of his legacy projects that he initiated in two Nigeria universities, the University of Calabar and the University of Lagos, adding that the intention is to make Law Faculty the best in Nigeria in terms of infrastructural facilities.
The lawmaker expressed his delight that the project has not become one of the very many abandoned projects in the country, even as he commended the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Professor Florence Obi, the Dean of Law Faculty, Prof. Ndifon and others, for the innovative leadership that the university is currently enjoying.
Also speaking, the Dean of Law Faculty, Prof. Ndifon lauded Senator Ndoma-Egba for facilitating the project, while noting that the building is the largest in the university.
