Contractor Handling Road Project Succumbs, Accepts Ogun Standards

Following the directive of the Ogun State Ministry of Works, Minim and Tonye, the contractor handling Ogun East Senator Gbenga Daniel’s projected 260-metre Road successful Sagamu, has accepted the engineering specifications and recommendations of the Ogun State Government for the operation of the Paddy Arikawe Igbimo Road.

The contractor conveyed this acceptance done its director, Abimbola Ayodeji.

The contractor, successful a missive addressed to the Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Ogun State, Mr Ade Akinsanya, yesterday, said it had been directed by the executing agency, the Border Communities Development Agency (BCDA), to commence the drainage works with the drainage specifications recommended by the Ogun Ministry of Works and Infrastructure.

Accordingly, it said the drainage magnitude shall beryllium a 600mm x 600mm RC drain with Grade 25 factual successful bid to beryllium successful uniformity with the existing drainage.

Previously, via a missive dated September 2025, the Ogun State Government had directed the contractor to halt enactment connected the task until it had obtained the indispensable regulatory approval, stating that owed process indispensable beryllium followed connected the authorities road.

However, erstwhile the contractor submitted its drawings, the authorities noticed that the drainage and the factual pavement plan were not up to the Federal Ministry of Works (FMW) modular specifications for roadworthy design.

Following this, it made its observations known to the contractor done a missive dated September 22, 2025, asking it to marque the indispensable corrections and resubmit for support accordingly.

While welcoming the contractor’s eventual determination to question the Ogun Government’s support for the project, the authorities stated that factual binding should beryllium of Grade 20, portion the factual people for the reinforced factual base, walks, and platform indispensable beryllium a minimum of Grade 25, with a precocious output tensile spot of not little than 460 N/mm², among different specifications.

It besides asked the contractor to usage a 220mm heavy reinforced factual pavement of not little than Grade 35 concrete, preferably Grade 40 concrete, alternatively of the 150mm heavy factual pavement of Grade 20 that it had proposed, adding that the thickness of the chromatic basal should preferably beryllium 200mm.

It further asked the contractor to supply the afloat layout with elevation and grades, and factual pavement details with reinforcement details astatine the joints, among others; supply the database of engineering materials and the worldly investigating for the prime assurance of the work; and to see plan criteria codes portion resubmitting drawings to bespeak the observations.

With the contractor’s alteration of bosom and compliance with the law, the task , taxable to Ogun State Ministry of Works approval, tin recommence successful earnest.