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The scandal is that the construction of the tunnel was supposed to be closed in April 2022, but was delayed by 17 months to be delivered in September 2023...
The scandals with Arbri Street continue. In addition to devouring millions, this road seems to have no end.
According to information, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy has once again postponed the deadline for the construction of the Murriz tunnel, which should have been delivered in September of this year. According to the Ministry, the reason for this postponement is the complexity of the works, therefore it is expected that the tunnel will be delivered in 2025.
The scandal is that the construction of the tunnel should have been closed in April 2022, but it was postponed by 17 months to be delivered in September 2023. But the firm "Gjoka Konstruksion" has continued with the same tone, justifying that the terrain is difficult and I can't close it before the deadlines.
For the coming year, payments in the amount of ALL 3.5 billion are foreseen for the Arbi Road concession.
At the beginning of the month, two senior officials of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy admitted at a hearing in the Law Commission that they did not know when the Murriz tunnel would be completed. But it seems that the project has now been postponed.
Deputy Minister Enkelejda Muçaj and the director of the Albanian Road Authority, Evis Berberi, also avoided the question of what will happen next with the concession contract.
"Asphalting is being finished for all road segments, with the exception of the Murriz tunnel," said the head of ARRSH, Evis Berberi while adding: "the moment we see light at the end of it, we will give them a date of exactly when it ends".
According to Berberi, the non-completion of the works is related to geological problems. MP Çupi insisted on getting an answer from the deputy minister, asking her if: "the concessionary contract for the road was extended again, when this road was finished and who would carry out the works after the end of the contract".
But Muçaj, instead of a concrete answer, invited the MP to the office to give him this information. "Regarding Ruga e Arbri and the contract, I would like to set up an official meeting with you to officially inform you with detailed information about where the problem is", she said in the commission, an invitation that was considered strange by Çupi.
The Arbri road contract was expected to be delivered in April 2022, but the government decided to postpone this contract for another 17 months, a term that ended on September 20 of this year.
Arbri Road in total is expected to cost the citizens 40.3 billion ALL with payments that will continue until 2031. The citizens have paid 15 billion ALL while the entrepreneurial company has so far failed to deliver the facility according to the contract, where the key part, the tunnel under Morrizi's neck, continues to be non-operational even a year and a half after the expiration of the initial term. Currently, the government does not provide information on when the road may be completed, despite the fact that the undertaking company has received additional contracts. And not only that, but the same company has won a tender entitled "revitalization of the escarpments", which is effectively an addition to the addition of the contract for the construction of these fifty kilometers of roads.
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