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The disaster-prone banquet hall of the Nasarawa
State government house in Lafia, suffered another setback when its roof
crumbled, marking the second major delay to the construction project in
less than one month.

Some new pillars on the N850 million project had
collapsed on January 19, although the state commissioner for
information, Mamman Alakayi denied that such an incident happened.

However, at the weekend, the rods mounted to
carry roofing sheets at the middle of the building broke down,
compelling Shelter Development Limited, the construction company
handling the project, to start all over again. Witnesses at the project
site told our reporter that work was going on smoothly until last
Sunday when disaster struck.

The project coordinator, John Mlanga Anyom,
insisted he was not aware of the recent incident. “It is not to my
knowledge,” he said.

Contract for the project was awarded last year, and the contractor
started the job in August after the foundation laying ceremony was
performed by the state governor, Aliyu Akwe Doma. He promised that the
work will be delivered in three months.