PO:
This singularly innovative "dry month" versus "wet month" dichotomy of the "ancien regime" - ee get as ee be - but actually the term "peculiar" is now (or has long been) an OFFICIAL term in Nigerian salary (or money-related) legalese, particular in terms of ALLOWANCES. However, I only learnt about it RECENTLY when reading about VC-ship within the rank of public servants, and what I have to face with respect to ASUU + NASU + SSANU + SATHURAI etc. (the unions).
The arithmetic is simple:
Total Salary package = Basic Salary + General Allowances + Peculiar Allowances
(based on (that every body (based on the NATURE of your
Grade + Step in your Grade takes, job eg hazard + special duties +
level) with amount indexed security needs, special demands etc.)
%-wise on your Basic salary)
These are OFFICIAL terms, and I am NOT making them up.
The (General + Peculiar) sum can be anywhere from 5 to 10 times the Basic Salary. Furthermore, it is not ALL the Peculiar Allowances that are disclosed up-front or that or on paper, but they can be negotiated with your Authorizing Body.
Nigeria, indeed, is a PECULIAR country.
Bolaji Aluko
Shaking his head
--- In Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com, PO <jengbadunn@...> wrote:
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> Morakinyo
> Please don't agree with with what is not generally acceptable standard world over. When a contract stipulates performance time, there is no deviation from it. In construction contract, there may be provision for weather delays which could be negotiated for time extension. I yet to read "dry months" anywhere of my thirty years in the construction industry.
> You see, Tosin dropped the "dry months" thing for the uninitiated just as they keep telling us about "stone based road" or "laterite based road". I don't know a good civil engineer who will speak in such terms.  We are not different than the rest of humanity and when i read "peculiar" I instantly think of our corruption.
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> Hypocrisy is holding others to standard you won't embrace.
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> --- On Fri, 5/6/11, morakbayode@... morakbayode@... wrote:
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> From: morakbayode@... morakbayode@...
> Subject: Re: [EKITIPANUPO] Ifaki Road How Omisore Duped Segun Oni of N400m
> To: "Ekitipanupo" Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, May 6, 2011, 1:22 PM
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> Tosin,
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> Yeah, I was talking about building/ public works contracts generally. It will be unfair of me to speak about the Ekiti contracts specifically on the basis of assumptions or e-group postings.
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> I agree with you, we are peculiar people.
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> Have a great weekend
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> Morakinyo
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> From: t_jegede@...
> Sender: Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 17:09:37 +0000
> To: Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> ReplyTo: Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [EKITIPANUPO] Ifaki Road How Omisore Duped Segun Oni of N400m
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> Egbon Morakinyo,
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> Maybe we should assume 24 dry months or 3 years whichever comes first is a peculiar agreement for peculiar state like our.
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> TJ
> Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
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> From: morakbayode@...
> Sender: Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 16:54:21 +0000
> To: EkitipanupoEkitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> ReplyTo: Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [EKITIPANUPO] Ifaki Road How Omisore Duped Segun Oni of N400m
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> Uncle Dele,
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> Despite 17 years of architecture and project management practice, I have not seen a contract stipulating dry months.
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> 24 months is 24 months as the contractor should have factored the rainy season into the programme. It is also norm to require contractors to submit weather charts to justify unusual patterns when extension of time is requested for by contractors on the basis of poor weather.
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> Regards
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> Morak
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> From: Dele Babatunde dele.babatunde@...
> Sender: Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 17:37:12 +0100
> To: Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> ReplyTo: Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [EKITIPANUPO] Ifaki Road How Omisore Duped Segun Oni of N400m
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> I am not schooled in the manner of contracts. But these seems quite educative i.e "DRY MONTHS". How, who will this be determined. Yes, I think contractors may factor in weather situations in arriving at contract duration. They may even seek for extension due to adverse weather. But not too sure you write in "DRY MONTHS" in any contract up front.
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> This "to be completed in 24 dry months" is your worst defense today. Please, cut it out as several of my brethren here will let you know you are speaking out of your depth.Â
> 24 months in road contract is what it is. There are folks here on this forum who have experience working on road projects in Alaska. So, it is only in Nigeria where indefensible excuse about weather is used to justify nonsense simply because your procurement system is corrupt.
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> Hypocrisy is holding others to standard you won't embrace.
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> --- On Fri, 5/6/11, t_jegede@... t_jegede@... wrote:
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> From: t_jegede@... t_jegede@...
> Subject: Re: [EKITIPANUPO] Ifaki Road How Omisore Duped Segun Oni of N400m
> To: Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, May 6, 2011, 11:48 AM
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> That road was awarded to be completed is 24 dry months, this means about three years. So what does your friend and the VC expect to hear from the governor who apparently must have spoken in line with the privileged information at his disposal.
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> TJ
> Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
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> From: Kunle Oladele greenedge_ng@...
> Sender: Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 08:38:46 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> ReplyTo: Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [EKITIPANUPO] Ifaki Road How Omisore Duped Segun Oni of N400m
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> A friend of mine who worked with the USTI accompanied the Vice Chancellor to meet former Governor Segun Oni with a view to request him to assist by putting pressure on the contractor to expedite action on the road construction/completion. He told me they were shocked to see the former Governor playing the role of the contractor's corprate affairs manager - justifying why they were not able to complete the project on time.
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> Of course they left the place with a strong believe that something was wrong. Now i can join the dots! Na wa oh!
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> Kunle Oladele
> Green Edge Limited
> 234 (0) 805 744 8101
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> --- On Fri, 5/6/11, PO jengbadunn@... wrote:
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> From: PO jengbadunn@...
> Subject: Re: [EKITIPANUPO] Ifaki Road How Omisore Duped Segun Oni of N400m
> To: Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, May 6, 2011, 8:20 AM
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> But Itawure-Okemesi road has been paid 100% and completed work is about 70%. I personally verified this at State Ministry of Works. The engineers told me they are helpless because they don't process application for payment only get information from the Commissioner what has been paid or not paid. Â
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> Hypocrisy is holding others to standard you won't embrace.
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> --- On Fri, 5/6/11, t_jegede@... t_jegede@... wrote:
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> From: t_jegede@... t_jegede@...
> Subject: Re: [EKITIPANUPO] Ifaki Road How Omisore Duped Segun Oni of N400m
> To: Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, May 6, 2011, 11:10 AM
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> Oga Yomi,
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> There is nothing really to respond to in your post as it does not reflect the true happenings.
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> 1. The said road was never awarded for 4.8billion naira.
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> 2. There is no way a stone based dual carriage road of that left and terrain would have cost 1.8billion.
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> 3. The contractors have not been paid over 80% as at the time Asiwaju Oni left office.
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> You may wish to produce copies of the award letter, the letter used in adjusting the contract cost and payment vouchers showing that the contractor got more than 80% before the exit of Asiwaju Oni.
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> TJ
> Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
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> From: "Ekiti Community Square" ekitipanupo@...
> Sender: Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 14:57:09 +0000
> To: Indigenous Intellectual Roundtableekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> ReplyTo: Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> Cc: Community Squareekitipanupoyouthforum@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [EKITIPANUPO] Ifaki Road How Omisore Duped Segun Oni of N400m
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> 'Oju mi la l'Eko, uya ni mu ni je l'Ekiti' let someone help us interpret this for the benefit of members who can't read Ekiti dialect.
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> Good enough all the accomplices listed apart from the non-indigenes, they are all reading this mail, silence means consent! Truly, this is when silence is not golden.
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> Fire on and keep us posted Ghandi of Ekitipanupo fame!
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> From: yomighandi2011@...
> Sender: Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 14:21:37 +0000
> To: ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> ReplyTo: Ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [EKITIPANUPO] Ifaki Road How Omisore Duped Segun Oni of N400m
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> Dear all
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> Have we all wondered why the Ado-Ifaki road is the most expensive in the world? Well the answer is here:
> The contract is worth only N1.8 billion, but Segun Oni awarded it for N4.8 billion and later adjusted it to N6.9billion. Before Fayemi took over, more than 80 per cent had been paid whereas. Actual work done is not up to 30 per cent till date.
> When the first instalment was paid, Omisore collected N400m, Segun Babatope got N200m, Arise, Dayo Adeyeye, Oni, Lawal and some traditional rulers also got part of the largesse.
> The sole aim was to purchase judgment at the various courts, but alas, Gods will must be done. We the good people of Ekiti state are the losers while the rogues smile to the banks with our tax payers money.
> That road is doomed as it is. Even if the contractor collects the balance, I doubt if it is sufficient to finish the task, because (oburin Ado an ti gberu lori Kongilato) the evil people and women have duped the contractor!
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> Yomi Umayo
> Ado Ewi
> Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
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