Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Oludaisi Elemide, has called on his co-lawmakers to carry out oversight on their constituency projects towards ensuring that the contractors handling the projects deliver them in line with the required standard contained in the projects' documentation.
Rt. Hon. Elemide, threw the challenge during the plenary, seized the occasion to clarify that the funds for the constituency projects were paid directly to the contractors handling the projects, saying that it was the duty of each lawmaker to monitor the process of project execution and ensure compliance to the standards in line with due process contained in the bidding by the various contractors handling the projects in all the State Constituencies.
He appreciated Governor Dapo Abiodun for approving the constituency project funds, which had been paid to the contractors for the execution of the various projects.
In the same vain, the Speaker had challenged the State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Ade Akinsanya, to speed up works on the roads recently damaged by rainfall in some parts of the State, while responding to the submission of the Assembly Minority Leader, Hon. Lukman Adeleye, who reported that the last rainfall had caused damage to the road linking Ososa junction- Itanrin- Sabo Molode, which required an immediate government's attention due to the various human and vehicular movements involving school children and other residents of the affected areas.
Elemide commended Government's efforts on Infrastructural development across the State, while charging the State Ministry of Works and Infrastructure to embark on more palliative measures to ease the plight of the road users in the affected areas in the State.
Earlier, while speaking under ' Matters of Urgent Public Importance', Hon. Adeleye lamented the havoc wreaked by the last downpour, causing major damage to the road, which he described as critical to his Odogbolu State Constituency, as well as Ijebu-Ode State Constituency.
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