Are you not the same engineer handling the Karshi-Ara road? Honestly, I am very disappointed with your work on the KujeGwagwalada road. Each of your projects I go to see, I feel highly disappointed
that he must ensure he did a quality job.
“What this gentle man is saying is that you should concentrate on the carriage way and later do the shoulder and drainage. Why don’t you just go ahead with both the drainage, shoulders and the carriage at the same time, ‘ he asked the contractor.
The minister, who noted that despite having a funding problem some few months ago, he ensured that funds were released to contractors to enable them continue with their work.
He said the KujeGwagwalada road is one of the routes traversing one of the agricultural zones in the federal capital, which he said needed to be in line with the required standard.
Bello regretted that the work was below the expected standard, while blaming officials of the STDA for not guiding the contractor to do the work according to specifications in spite of the huge amount expended on the road project.
He added that the STDA officials had also failed for not living to expectations in supervising the work as well as reporting to him the true situation of things, rather than pushing of contract files for him to approve payment for contractors.
“For this project, I heard that the ES has to look for them to sit down and discuss because your office simply couldn’t manage this project. The final meeting that they held was done by the ES because your office simply couldn’t manage it Madam and that is why we are facing problems spending so much money but the rural Abuja is not getting any project and that is the point, “the minister