Gombe State Government’s Five Star International Hotel which was inherited by the last and present administrations in the state and built at the cost of over N3billion is yet to commence services two years after its completion and commissioning by the immediate past government of Danjuma Goje.

The 90-room hotel, which was started by the first civilian Governor of the state, Alhaji Abubakar Habu Hashidu about ten years ago, was furnished and commissioned for operation at the tail end of the Goje administration in April 2011.

The then State Governor, Senator Danjuma Goje had, at the commissioning of the hotel, said he borrowed money to complete the project which investigations Community Mirror revealed has not been paid.

Capable of generating billions of naira worth of revenue which the government is in dire need of, the inability of it to commence operations has remained unknown and raising a lot of curious questions by people of the state.

Investigation also revealed that that the Jos-based construction firm, Eagle Construction Company Limited was yet to hand over the hotel to the state government over alleged failure of the state government to settle balance of the contractual amount being owed the contractor, running to billions of naira.

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