First Year In Office: Oborevwori To Inaugurate Multiple Projects

Mr. Charles Aniagwu, the Delta State Commissioner for Works, Rural and Riverine Roads, has said Governor Sheriff Oborevwori has lined up numerous projects for inauguration to mark his one year anniversary as Delta State chief executive.

Aniagwu, who spoke to journalists shortly after inspecting some completed and ongoing projects in Okpe and Ughelli North Local Government Areas of the state, said Governor Oborevwori was desirous to deliver quality projects to Deltans in line with his MORE Agenda.

The Works Commissioner who was flanked by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Sir Festus Ahon, and Functioning Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Works (Rural and Riverine Roads), Engr. Solomon Aghagba, said: “We have today inspected four different roads, the first one being the Adagbrasa Road that starts from Warri-Sapele Express and terminates at the Effurun Eku Road. “Of course, it has a spur to Oha and the second one is 13.07km, the other one is Esezi Road in Orerokpe which is a dual carriageway and it is 1.2km.

It is a road that cuts across a very major part of Orerokpe, the headquarters of Okpe Local Government Area of the state. “We also inspected the Okan Junction to Agbarho and from there we are now inspecting this one which is about 3.47km “The reason why we are carrying out this inspection is that the governor has directed that we must ensure that contractors are achieving three important things which are: One to ensure that we are able to meet up with the speed, which means in line with the schedule of work; two is to ensure that Deltans also get value for money which is to say that whatever that we have put in the Bill of Engineering Measurement and Evaluation (BEME) adhered to; and third reason and very importantly, is to ensure that the quality or standard of work is such that Deltans get value for the money that we are deploying for these different jobs.

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“The governor is very much interested in these jobs and ditto any other jobs across the 25 local government areas of the state.

“What we are doing now is that, ahead of our one year in office, we are looking at the number of roads that we are sure will be completed.

“The first one we want was Adagbrasa Road; you could see that that one is completed and by the grace of God, the road will be part of the roads that we are going to be commissioning in the course of our one year in office.

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“We have been assured by the contractor that these other three roads may likely fall within that threshold but what is most important is that the contractor is not only on site, he is actually moving with speed and l am very much impressed with the quality of work that they are bringing to bear on the project.

“So, what it means is that this is not the time where a contractor gets a job and turns it into a bedroom and possibly begins to sleep.

“At our own end, by the grace of God, we will continue to see what we can do to meet up with the financial requirements of the jobs that we have awarded to contractors.”