Hard Times Await Defaulting Contractors In Rivers

Hard times now await contractors in Rivers State who would fail to deliver their jobs credibly and at a specified date.
The chancellor, International Society for Social Justice and Human Right (INSSJHR), Chief Omenazu Jackson said this in an exclusive interview with The Tide at the end of the three-day training on monitoring, tracking oversight of Budget and Public Expenditures organized by Rivers State Government / United Nation Development Programme last week in Port Harcourt.
He said it is about time contractors paid for their excesses in the areas of abandonment of  projects for which they were mobilized by the government.
Jackson noted that community-based Organisations (CBOs) and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have understood the importance of budget monitoring.
He said that his society would stop at nothing until contractors and other public fund handlers begin to make judicious use of the funds entrusted in their care.
According to him, the programme which had experts from all walks of life, had exposed the ills of ineffective budget monitoring, adding that the people rejoice when the budget was effectively monitored.
The Human Right Crusader, also pointed out both the CBOs and CSOs, would henceforth be involved in all stages of budget, ranging from formation to the final stage to ensure proper budget implementation.
He further warned that laziness, non implementation of budget would no longer be tolerated adding that such group of persons, should be ready to face the music.
He said that his society would not fail to expose and report such contractors to the appropriate quarters.
The Tide gathered that the programme, will also address the issue of budget leakages and other challenges that require budget implementation.
Earlier, he remarked that his group would also be proud of those who justified the funds entrusted in their care by the government, stressing that Rivers people must get value for their money.
Highlight of the event was the honouring of Speical Assistant to the Governor on International Donor Agencies (IDA), Mr Bestman Woka who emerged first in the country as the Best S.A. on IDA.