Four contractors that have failed to meet up with performance specifications in Oyo State risk losing the contracts as the state government has threatened to terminate them.
The state commissioner for public works and infrastructure, Rapheal Afonja, who issued the threat, further said that the Governor Seyi Makinde-led administration was compiling list of non-performing contractors in the state.
Afonja said: “We have received complaints across the state about pace and quality of work done by these contractors. The governor also inspects the pace of work during the day and even in the night, I can tell you now that soon, termination notice will soon be given to four non-performing contractors.
Among the contracts inherited by the present administration and still ongoing are the dualisation of Idi-Ape-Basorun-Akobo-Odogbo Barracks road in Ibadan and dualisation of Saki Township along Oke-Ogun Poly-Ilesha-Ibariba road in Saki.
Others are Eleyele Junction-Akufo-Ido-Eruwa road, reconstruction of Moniya-Iseyin road and Agodi-Gate-Old Ife Road, Adegbayi in Ibadan.
Meanwhile, state government has said that the introduction of park management system in the state was aimed at plugging holes in the income of the state and not for political reasons.
The commissioner for public works and infrastructure, Raphael Afonja said this while answering questions from journalists who were at his office after the inauguration of park managers for public motor parks in the State on Monday.
Afonja observed that the people were happy that leaks in the state’s income were plugged while individuals appointed would work with trusted consultancy firm to generate income for the state, using technology to monitor activities and accountability of all players while all funds generated would go into the state coffers.
