Ogun Govt Orders Revision Of Engineering Design On Gbenga Daniel’s Constituency Project

Ogun State authorities has ordered the contractor handling Senator Gbenga Daniel’s constituency roadworthy task successful Sagamu to make a caller plan that conforms to the state’s required engineering specification.

The government, successful a missive addressed to the contractor dated 22nd September 2025 and signed by the Permanent Secretary successful the state’s Ministry of Works, Engr. Yusuf I. O expressly faulted the measure of quantities submitted by the contractor connected the crushed that it lacked clarity connected the circumstantial information that the roadworthy reconstruction covers.

The 260-metre Paddy Arikawe Oye Igbimo roadworthy task successful Sagamu is portion of a projected 3-kilometre agelong constructed successful 4 phases.

While support was lone granted for the archetypal phase, the contractor had begun enactment earlier without authorities approval, prompting the authorities to request owed process.

The ministry besides raised concerns implicit the prime of the materials projected for the work, directing that factual binding should beryllium Grade 20, portion reinforced factual base, walks, and platform indispensable beryllium Grade 25 minimum, with a precocious output tensile spot of not little than 460 N/mm2.

The contractor was instructed to regenerate the projected 150mm factual pavement of Grade 20 with a 220mm heavy reinforced factual pavement of not little than Grade 35, preferably Grade 40, and to summation the thickness of the chromatic basal to 200mm.

The missive besides demanded a implicit layout with elevation and grades, elaborate drawings of factual pavement with reinforcement astatine the joints, a database of engineering materials, and grounds of prime assurance testing. It further directed the contractor to see plan criteria codes successful each revised submissions.

While acknowledging the contractor’s eventual measurement of seeking authorities approval, the authorities maintained that lone designs that conscionable established engineering standards would beryllium accepted to guarantee durability and worth for taxpayers’ money.