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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured a court order to detain the Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of Sujimoto Luxury Construction Limited, Sijibomi Ogundele, over alleged N5.7billion unexecuted contract.Ogundele is facing investigation following his alleged failure to deliver 22 Smart Green School projects in Enugu State after his company was reportedly paid by the state government.
He was accused of abandoning the project, failing to return to site, and ignoring repeated calls for accountability.
Following his alleged failure to honour several invitations, the EFCC, on September 5, declared him wanted.
However, before he surrendered himself to the anti-graft agency, the embattled contractor took to his social media platforms to plead his innocence.
He explained that the contract was underpriced, and equally cited inflation as a major factor that contributed to his inability to execute the project.
Responding to the claim, the Enugu State Government alleged that the Sujimoto CEO disappeared after he collected N5.7bn as 50 percent mobilization fee to deliver the 22 Smart Green Schools in six months, being February 2025.
“The Enugu State Government paid the sum of N5,762,565,475.25, representing 50 per cent of the contract sum, in order to fast-track the projects at all the sites.
“Rather than play to the rules of the contract, Mr. Ogundele resorted to shoddy jobs and the use of inexperienced workers and quack engineers.“None of his sites little jobs done on the sites met the structural integrity of the projects as specified in the structural drawing.
“Worse still, he vanished into thin air with the money. All efforts made by the government to get him to a roundtable to discuss the quality and progress of work proved abortive.
“He equally refused to attend the periodic projects briefing organised by the state government for all contractors or take numerous calls and messages put across to him.
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