Gov. Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto State has inaugurated the State and Senatorial zones projects and contracts monitoring committees, with a call on them to be honest and sincere in the discharge of their assignments.
He said the committees are aimed at ensuring that people of the State get quality projects that would fast-track the needed development across the 23 Local Government Areas.
According to him, the current administration has since coming on board awarded several contracts across the State.
They include the construction and asphalt over lay of feeder roads, Mosques and Islamiyya schools.
Others include; health centers, blocks of classrooms as well as water projects.
“This necessitated the setting up of these committees to verify the said projects in line with the contractual agreements and
ensure that there is no compromise on the quality of the projects,’ he said.
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Gov. Aliyu reminded members of the committees that they were appointed based on their track records, integrity, honesty, dedication as well as patriotism and must therefore discharge their duties with utmost deligence.
He charged them to operate in line with their committees’ terms of reference which include, identifying the contracts awarded by the state government, identifying all the ongoing and abandoned projects and ascertaining the level of work of all the ongoing and abandoned projects in the state.
The committees are also expected to find out the payments so far made, the outstanding payments, if any, and
confirm or otherwise, the certificates for payments issued by the supervising client/ Ministry, before recommending same to the State government for payment.
Responding on behalf of other committees’ members, Alhaji Bello Na-gwari assured the Governor that they will discharge their assignment without any fear or favour.
(Editor: Ken Eseni)
