Kwara State House of Assembly has charged contractors handling state government projects to prioritize quality job and work inline with specification and time frame.
The Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon Yakubu Danladi Salihu gave the charge during the ongoing oversight tour on various government projects across the 16 Local Government Areas of the state.
Rt. Hon Danladi Salihu, who is an Engineer by profession, said if jobs are executed to specifications, the project will stand the test of time with many positive effects on the masses and government.
He also implored communities to maintain and protect public utilities provided by government such as electricity and water installations, roads, bridges, hospitals and schools.
The Speaker who expressed satisfaction with level of work done at the areas visited along with his colleagues assured people of Kwara State that the 9th legislature in the state would not relent in bringing government closer to them through masses orientation legislative activities.
Projects inspected by the speaker’s team on second day of the oversight include Shao township road, ongoing renovation of Government Secondary School Malete, Government Arabic School Jebba, Ojere road Bababloma, Government Secondary School Share and newly installed five thousand KVA transformer at Oke-Ode community.
The lawmakers were at the palace of Elesa of Oke-Ode, Oba Abdulkadir Alebiosu who commended Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq and the Kwara State House of Assembly for ongoing efforts to salvage the community from darkness of about two years following damage of the two thousand five hundred KVA transformer in the community before.
Rt. Hon Danladi Salihu and other legislators applauded the contractor for carrying out the electrification project with a reasonable period of time and urged him to work with the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company to energise it so that power can be restored to Oke-Ode as soon as possible
In a related development, the Deputy Speaker of the House, Hon Raphael Olanrewaju Adetiba has assured that the House would not rest on its oars in assisting the state government to see that contractors handling projects delivered quality jobs for the use of the people.
Hon Adetiba said this when he led another team of lawmakers on oversight tour of projects of the state government in Ilorin East Local Government Area.
“We thank God for yet another opportunity to go on oversight, to conduct checking on what is being done. We know that the Governor is doing so much to make sure that Kwarans have a better life. But of course, there is need for us to continue to assist in ensuring that value for money is achieved.
“We went to sites to see what the contractors are doing. A lot of people think it is business as usual, and I know the narratives were to change and it is already changing. Those contractors that were doing shoddy jobs think it is business as usual.
“Now, they would realise it is not business as usual and they must ensure they deliver to value. Kwarans know that AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq is ready to work, he has some saboteurs sabotaging his effort, which we will not allow to happen”, the Deputy Speaker said.
Some of the projects inspected are ongoing Akerebiata drainage, newly renovated Up Kwara Water at Iyawo Poultry/Sobi Area,
Hospital/Gaa-Osibi/Medina road, a block of classrooms at Okelele Secondary School and the newly sunk motorized borehole at Isale-Koko community, all in Ilorin East local government area.
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