The Honourable Commissioner, Kano State Ministry for Public Procurement Project Monitoring and Evaluation (MPPPM&E), Nura Iro Ma’aji, on Tuesday invited the contractors handling the ongoing construction of Kwankwasiyya Gida-Gida Blocks of 4 Classrooms for discussion.
This follows the observations he made during the project’s monitoring tour.
Barely 3 days after he assumed office, Honourable Ma’aji embarked on a project monitoring tour across the state.
He visited Gaya, Wudil, Dawakin Kudu, Albasu, Garko, and Sumaila local governments where he supervised the ongoing construction of Kwankwasiyya Gida-Gida Blocks of 4 Classrooms.
The discussion with the contractors centered around the failures identified by the team of engineers who accompanied the Honorable Commissioner to the monitoring tour.
The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Engr. Garba Adamu, identified and categorized the observations during the monitoring tour as follows there were structural problems, which included gaps between walls, cracks in the bricks, and crumbling concrete.
He noted most of these problems on stairs and beams.
The framework according to the Permanent Secretary in most of the projects is not qualitative enough to allow for better concrete surface finishing.
In most of the projects, the concrete mix is completely unacceptable.
The supervision both from the clients and the supervising ministry lacks a systematic approach and no correlation between the contractors and the client ministries.
On his part, the Director of Planning and Statistics, Mas’ud Lado Saleh, ordered the contractors to stop working until a meeting is organized and conducted between the client Ministries and the MPPPM&E
In his closing remarks, the Honorable Commissioner emphasized that this meeting became necessary following poor execution of projects by contractors in spite of the huge amount of money spent by the government. He urged contractors to abide by the terms of agreement reached before the award of contract.
Credit: Sagiru Ado Abubakar,
