Govt Cooking Stoves Contract Is Smelling Like Scam?

Wonder bags are supposed to help women in rural
areas to cook using lesseer amount of fire-wood.

The Federal Government threatens to revoke cooking stoves contract worth N9.2 billion despite N1.3 billion have already been paid.

The Federal Government representative told it is going to revoke the cooking stove contract for rural women approved by the administration of Goodluck Jonathan in November 2014 in case contractor fails to observe the contract conditions.

Fatima Mede, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Environment, said the government had already paid the contractor N1.3 billion out of total N9.2 billion but despite that “what [the contractor] supplied to us is not up to our agreement.”

She added that “we have written to [the contractor] to clarify the supply and count the supply physically before we accept them.”

The company responsible for the project is Integra Renewable Energy Services Limited. It is supposed to provide rural women in Nigeria with 750,000 clean cooking stoves and 18,000 wonder bags, designed for economical cooking.

Fatima Mede also informed the public that before distributing these items to the women in rural areas of Nigeria the government wants to verify not only the quantity but also the quality of those goods.

However she reassured the public that “the government is not going to lose any amount [of money] from the contract.” According to her words if the government discovers that what the contractor supplied is not up to the agreement the money shall be returned bac

This contract have been already harshly criticised on social media for its huge cost.