THE Managing Director of Laralek Ultimate Construction Company, Olalekan Adebiyi, has debunked media reports of alleged wide roof leakage at the White House segment of the National Assembly during storming downpour.
An online platform in the early hours of Saturday reported that the violently storming rain that fell on Friday, made mince meat of renovation work carried out by one of the subsidiaries of Laralek Ultimate Construction Company (Visible Construction Company) on the roof and other areas of the National Assembly Complex from 2022 to 2024.
The online medium in the report alleged that some staff of the National Assembly had lamented that if the N38billion renovation work was handled by Julius Berger, there wouldn’t have been problem of roof leakage again during rain fall, while insinuating that the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) that awarded the contract to Visible Construction Company, may have been compromised.
But the Managing Director of Laralek Ultimate Construction Company, Olalekan Adebiyi, in a telephone conversation with journalists covering the National Assembly, said the report was fake as investigation carried out by the firm revealed that there was no leakage from the roof of the White House segment of the National Assembly Complex.
According to him, the roof sealant imported from United States of America (USA) and applied to the points of leakages on the roof is water tight and can never leak.
“The report to us, is unfounded and simply put, ‘bad belle’ because if it was Julius Berger that carried out the renovation works, no such fake report will be written against it.
“I wonder why some Nigerians always like to be enemies of their fellow country men for no good reason whatsoever.
“We checked and found out that it was an ingress of water that came through the smaller windows at the upper part of the Chamber Building that flooded the floor and not roof leakage.
“The said story or report has no single picture of points of leakages from the roof which to us is very unprofessional and unethical.
“The report is fake as there was no leakage from any point on the roof. We did a good job and stand by it and shall surely be vindicated as more and more rains will still fall in the coming weeks and months,” he said.
