NAN-H-71
Communities
Mercy Obojeghren
Edegrode (Delta), Nov. 17, 2016 (NAN) The Delta government has urged host communities in the state to cooperate and support contractors handling infrastructural projects in their areas.
The Commissioner for Works, Chief James Augoye, stated this on Thursday at Edegrode-Eleme in the Sapele Local Government Area, while inspecting ongoing projects in the area.
Augoye noted that one of the challenges facing the execution of infrastructural project in the state and country at large was the uncooperative attitude of the communities to the contractors handling government projects.
He, therefore, called on communities in the state to ensure that they supported and cooperated with contractors handling government projects in their areas, warning that “any community found to be hostile, resistant and unable to support or cooperate with contractors handling government projects would lose such projects.
“One would have expected that the communities will gladly support any developmental projects coming to their areas, but in a situation where indigenes of such communities are now being hostile to contractors, it is indeed very unfair.
“Such communities will have no other option than to lose such projects and the projects will be relocated to other areas where it would be embraced,’’ he said.
Meanwhile, the contractor handling the 5.4kilometre Edegrode –Eleme road project said that the commencement of the project had been a major challenge to his company in the last few weeks.
The commissioner, who also visited the 2.4km Kpokpogri road project in Okpe local government area condemned the pace of work at the site, as well as the quality of job being executed by the contractor.
He, however, warned the contractor handling the project to improve on the quality of work, adding that, “the drainage is very poor and if not corrected, the site will be closed down.’’
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the commissioner also inspected the rehabilitation of the 300 metres Adeola/New Ogorode road, the dualisation of the access road to Jesse town in Ethiope-West local government area.
The commissioner also inspected the expansion and dualisation of the failed sections of the Oghara junction to Otefe road in Ethiope West Local Government Area. (NAN)
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(Edited by Idonije Obakhedo)