HOW DAVE UMAHI AWARDED AIRPORT CONTRACT TO HIS FAMILY MEMBER (Brother).
The governor gave the contract for constructing a generator house at the Ebonyi state international airport to AUSTAC INTEGRATED SERVICES, a company owned by his younger brother, Austin Chukwu Umahi, while they were pretentiously running for the senate ticket against each other. The contract, titled “CONSTRUCTION OF PROPOSED GENERATOR HOUSE AT EBONYI STATE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT,” was awarded on June 25, 2022, by the Ministry of Infrastructure Development for Concession, under the leadership of Eng. Nweze Fidelis Kings, commissioner of the ministry and Chairman of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, Ebonyi State Chapter. The contract’s total cost was N62, 932,875 (Sixty Two Million Nine Hundred and Thirty Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy Five Naira), which is over three-fold of the N20, 000,000 (Twenty Million Naira) allocated for the project in the state’s 2022 budget.