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Home Government Reps commends Fashola’s  compliance  with local content on road Projects
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Reps commends Fashola’s  compliance  with local content on road Projects

By
Salisu B. Haiba
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November 6, 2019

Reps commends Fashola’s  compliance  with local content on road Projects

The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petition has commended the Minister of  Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola for ensuring compliance with local content in the execution of road projects in the country.

The commendation was made during the public hearing on a petition written by the Abak community on the ongoing reconstruction work of Abak Ekparakwa-Eke-Ikot – Abasi Road in Akwa Ibom State.

The Chairman of the Committee Honourable Jerry Alagboso commended the commitment of the Minister in ensuring that contractors complied with local content as provided in the executive order two for support for local content in procurement of goods and services.

The Committee also urged the Minister to henceforth engage more with the beneficiary community of any road project in order to make them understand what is involved around the whole project being executed in their community in order to avoid a misguided and ill informed insinuations.

The Minister, in reaction to the accusation of the community for non compliance with the local content, explained that the employees engaged by the Company were largely indigenous people which were over fifty in number, adding that materials such as laterite, sand and cement were also locally sourced.

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Fashola also presented pictorial evidence of the conditions of the road in question, and explained that some sections of the road were largely motorable consequently, only rehabilitation work were necessary there.

He said that the company was working according to specification  as contained in the contract agreement which stated for  reconstruction of the 20 kilometers failed part of the road and rehabilitation of the remaining motorable 15 kilometers

The Minister who commended the passion of the community on the project, however advised  the community to consider the long term benefits of the road such as easy movement of goods from their farms to market, attraction of investment and employment generation that would be derived from the completion of the project instead of concentrating on the short term benefits that they could get from the work.

Fashola further said that his Ministry has a clear course of behaviour of monitoring projects  closely to ensure quality control and compliance with specification as he is receiving monthly updated reports from  states’ controllers of the ministry.

The Abak community had alleged in their petition that the contractor was not working according to specification because the contract given to them was to convert the road to a dual carriage way. They also accused the company of not ensuring local content in their work.

Salisu B. Haiba

Assistant Director (Press)

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