{"id":239733,"date":"2026-01-19T15:36:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/local-contractors-resume-protest-over-non-payment-of-n4tn-debt-owed-by-fg\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T15:36:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:36:53","slug":"local-contractors-resume-protest-over-non-payment-of-n4tn-debt-owed-by-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/local-contractors-resume-protest-over-non-payment-of-n4tn-debt-owed-by-fg\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Contractors Resume Protest Over Non-Payment of N4tn Debt Owed by FG"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Local contractors under the All Indigenous Contractors Association of Nigeria (AICAN) have resumed protests over debts exceeding four trillion naira owed to them by the Federal Government.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the protesting contractors blocked the main entrance to the Ministry of Finance, accusing the government of betraying them through the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, and failing to pay for projects already executed.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the protest venue, the National President of AICAN, Jackson Ifeanyi Nwosu, said the Minister of State for Finance, Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite, had promised to release payment warrants and asked the contractors to submit their lists. \u201cWe\u2019ve given them all they needed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cTo date, we\u2019ve not seen any warrants approved. So that\u2019s why we are back to the trenches.<\/p>\n

Mr. Wale Edun told the Senate committee that the money that the federal government is owing indigenous contractors, over 80% of the money has been paid.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think, as we speak, there are 204 capital projects. Only about 30-40% was paid. The warrants that they released only ended in May. Most people from January to May have not received payment.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo between June and December, no warrants. So, which payment did they make? No alerts. No single alert. The only ones we received was about N230 billion they released. And that only ended in February.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nwosu stressed that many completed projects remain unpaid. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about over 4 trillion. There are so many other projects that have been completed that have not been paid.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe next line of action is that if they don\u2019t kill us, the economy of this country will die. Most of these contractors have collected funds from banks, and could not even pay.<\/p>\n

\u201cBanks have seized most of their properties. So, some have died. We are ready for the worst. We are not leaving the streets. We are ready for the worst. And we will continue to be law-abiding.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The AICAN president further claimed that the president is fully aware of the situation, receiving daily reports even from the DSS, and knows how the funds are being used.<\/p>\n

He alleged that all the funds are being diverted to support the president\u2019s re-election campaign, effectively using contractors\u2019 money for political purposes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Local contractors under the All Indigenous Contractors Association of Nigeria (AICAN) have resumed protests over debts exceeding four trillion naira owed to them by the Federal Government. On Monday, the protesting contractors blocked the main entrance to the Ministry of Finance, accusing the government of betraying them through the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":239734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[2771,233],"class_list":["post-239733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-contractors","tag-fg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-01-19-at-2.15.58-PM.jpeg.webp.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}