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Tenders Board Enforces Projects Implementation
The Lagos State Tenders Board (STB) says it has begun the monitoring of ongoing projects in the state to ensure they are implemented in line with contractual agreements.
Chairman of the board, Mrs Florence Oguntuase, said while inspecting some of the projects in Iju and Ijaiye areas of Lagos yesterday that the step was at the instance of Gov. Babatunde Fashola .
She said that the inspection was also to enable the board identify the challenges contractors were facing in executing the projects, with a view to providing quick interventions.
The Tide source reports that some of the projects include ongoing work at the 318, 000 m3 capacity Adiyan Water Treatment Phase 2 and rehabilitation work at the Ijaiye mini water-works.
“Our inspecting some of the projects, especially those for which contracts were recently awarded by the board, was to first of all monitor progress of work and ensure they are being implemented according to plan.
“Secondly, going round the projects one after the other would enable us to interact with the contractors on some of the challenges they might be facing so that we can provide quick interventions,” she said.
At the Adiyan Water Works in Iju, Oguntuase expressed satisfaction with the level of work done so far but urged Salini Nigeria Ltd., the contractors, to speed up activities on some aspects of the work.
She said that the government would do everything possible to deliver the 70million gallons per day facility.
Mr Bernardo Raffaeli, Salini’s project manager, thanked the state government for supporting them on the project, noting that it had helped to accelerate the pace of work.
He, however, sought government’s intervention on the problem of encroachment on the project site by residents of neighbouring communities.
“Though this place is fenced, neighbouring residents often break into this site and cause delay in our work. We will appreciate it if the government could help on this.
“We will particularly require that security personnel are deployed here to protect our equipment. We are committed to prompt delivery of the project; we also require more support to achieve that,” he said.
Oguntuase urged the management of Ijaiye Water Works to do all they could to boost water supply to residents of Ijaiye and its environs.
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