Commissioner Wants Contractor BackTo Site

Delta State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Prof. Patrick Muoboghare, has appealed to the contractor handling the block of 24 classrooms in Emore Grammar School in Oleh, to return to site. Muoboghare made the appeal on Saturday at Oleh, in Isoko South Local Government Area during an unscheduled visit to the site.

The commissioner was told by members of the host community that the contractor was chased out of the site by hoodlums. He condemned the action of the hoodlums and blamed the action for the delay in the pace of work at the site. Muoboghare warned that if the contractor was not allowed to return to site by Tuesday next week, the ministry would not hesitate to “relocate the project to a more friendly and appreciative community.’’

He said that the state government had resolved to site projects in only friendly and peaceful communities and called on Oleh leaders “to caution their youths’’. He said that similar mega projects were ongoing in 12 other towns in the state without “harassment’’.

In a related development, the commissioner has directed the contractor handling a similar project at St. Theresa’s Girl Grammar School, Ughelli to report in his office on Tuesday.

The commissioner said the contractor would explain why he abandoned the project after he visited the site on Saturday. He criticised the contractor for not doing “any appreciable work’’ after the visit of Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta to the site on July 7, 2012.

He said that apart from some moulded blocks, there was nothing on ground to show that work was still ongoing in the site.