Shoddy Job: Ebonyi Orders Contractors’ Arrest

Acting politician of Ebonyi State, Princess Patricia Obila, has ordered the apprehension of immoderate contractors handling the Amaeze/Izzo Housing Estate implicit alleged shoddy occupation and substandard materials utilized successful the operation of the buildings.

Obila, who expressed sadness implicit the hold and the mediocre enactment the contractors had executed, said the authorities authorities would not proceed to tolerate the activities of immoderate contractors sabotaging the authorities efforts successful task execution.

She said, “We are not blessed present astatine all. This task is expected to person been completed and commissioned this month. Look everywhere. I purposely entered present truthful that you won’t archer maine stories. Look astatine the building. Nobody has entered here, and it has started collapsing already.

“With each the wealth we person enactment successful present successful this project, are you not telling america that erstwhile the occupants of this gathering determination in, that wrong 3 to 6 months that the location volition not commencement falling connected them. Get maine the database of each of them, fto maine cognize whom they are, they are going to beryllium arrested,” she said.

The acting governor, who led a delegation of apical authorities officials, inspected 19 ongoing projects successful Ishielu, Ohaukwu, and Abakaliki section authorities areas.

Some of the projects inspected include, 22-classroom artifact astatine Girls High School, Ezillo, 24km Ezillo-Ezzagu Road, Amaeze/Izzo Housing Estate, Amaeze Izzo Housing Estate interior roads and the ongoing schoolroom blocks astatine Unity Primary School, Amovu.

Others include, ongoing 24km Umuogudu Oshia-Nigercem Road, ongoing 22-classroom blocks astatine Izhia Girls Secondary School, Ezzamgbo, the ongoing operation of Industrial City task astatine Ezzamgbo and the installation of caller machines astatine Pipe Production Company, Ezzamgbo amongst others.

She commended immoderate of the contractors handling immoderate different projects and expressed interest implicit the dilatory gait of enactment successful immoderate different operation sites, informing them to expedite enactment to implicit the projects for commissioning.

She besides appreciated stakeholders and the radical for their unwavering enactment to the People’s Charter of Needs medication of the authorities politician Francis Nwifuru, assuring them that the medication has made important advancement successful task execution.

Speaking besides to LEADERSHIP, a erstwhile talker of the State House of Assembly, Hon Augustine Nwankwagu, called connected the authorities politician to, isolated from terminating the contracts awarded to immoderate contractors executing shoddy jobs, instrumentality a measurement further to prosecute them to service arsenic a deterrent to others.