Enugu Patriots to Sujimoto: Stop Crocodile tears, return Smart Schools money

…Disputes Sujimoto’s N4bn expenditure assertion connected projects

 …Ugo Chime, Asogwa, different bulk contractors delivering connected target

Enugu State Patriots, a radical of leaders cutting crossed governmental and nonrecreational backgrounds, has thrown its value down the efforts of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the authorities authorities to retrieve the N5.7billion truthful acold paid successful tranches to Sujimoto Luxury Construction Limited for the operation of 22 of 260 Smart Green Schools embarked upon by the government.

The radical besides disputed the assertion by Olasijibomi Suji Ogundele, Sujimoto’s CEO, that his institution had already spent N4billion connected the projects earlier the termination of the declaration astatine the expiration of the agreed completion clip successful February 2025.

It said  pictures and videos of the sites arsenic of May 2025 and a study it sourced from Enugu State Ministry of Works and Infrastructure showed that Sujimoto could not person spent up to N600 cardinal connected the occupation helium did astatine the full 22 sites earlier they were recovered by government.

The radical made its presumption known successful a connection by the spokesperson, Prof. Mathiine Anikwe, yesterday, besides faulting effort by Ogundele to blasted ostentation and nett borderline since galore contractors had already delivered their ain projects.

It arsenic faulted the Sujimoto CEO’s assertion that his institution got lone N5.2billion, alternatively of N5.7bn, describing it arsenic an effort to discountenance the company’s VAT/tax obligations.

“The information that acquisition was implicit 30 per cent successful the 2024 fund and 33 per cent successful 2025 underscores the precedence the Mbah Administration places connected the sector. That is monolithic and has to bash with the 260 Smart Green Schools.

“No 1 tin blasted the authorities for awarding the declaration to Sujimoto, fixed its projects successful Lagos. But having failed to amusement worth for wealth here, we counsel Ogundele to cleanable his crocodile tears and instrumentality the wealth to Ndi Enugu. Period,” Prof. Anikwe added.

Meanwhile, different contractors handling aggregate Smart Green School projects for the authorities person expressed restitution with the strategy enactment successful spot by the government, saying they were delivering the projects successful enactment with government’s standards and schedule.

The contractors, successful abstracted interviews, commended the immense concern by the authorities to migrate Enugu State children from outdated structures and learning to modern infrastructure and experiential learning to equip them with requisite cognition and skills to vie successful the emerging planetary economy.

The Managing Director of Testimony Enterprises, Surv. Ugo Chime, said his institution was awarded 10 of the 260 Smart Green School projects.

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