By Chimaobi Afiauw, Abuja
A civil engineering firm handling the renovation of the National Assembly Complex, Visible Construction Limited, says it is working round the clock to ensure that the leakage on the National Assembly roof is fixed.
The firm said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja by its Project Engineer, Tajudeen Olanipekun, according to a Premium Times report.
A video recently circulated on social media showed the entrance to the NASS complex flooded with water after a downpour.
In March 2002, the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) awarded N30 billion worth of contracts to Visible Construction Limited to rehabilitate critical segments of the NASS complex.
The segments to be renovated include the chambers of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the White House Dome, as well as the offices of the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC), and the Library.
But the rehabilitation of the segments had yet to be completed after two years since the contract was awarded to the firm.
The development makes the roofing of some sections of the NASS complex leak whenever it rains, and some offices get flooded.
The plenary sessions of the 10th Assembly, both the Senate and the House of Representatives now hold in the temporary chambers as a result of the leaking roof.
Mr. Olanipekun said the necessary chemicals that will be applied to the affected roofing have been imported from the United States but will be applied after the rainy season.
“The report on roof leakage in the National Assembly to us at Visible Construction is like the marking script of a student still writing his or her examination,” he said.
“Renovation work on the entire complex is still being carried out by us. It is only when we have finished the work that a report on roof leakage can be written, which, to us, would never happen as the problem would be a thing of the past by the time it is handed over to the FCDA that gave us the job.
“There should be no cause for alarm from any quarters as regards the project since engineers from FCDA are also with us.”
