Presidency Team Lands in Osun to Inspect N538m Ojutu Bridge Project

– FRC inspects and ascertain the level of work done on the estimated N538, 895,868 ongoing bridge projects.

– Team Promises to recommend release of fund for completion of project.

The Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) on Tuesday has visited the site of the Ojutu Bridge Project in Ilobu, Orolu Local Government of Osun.

The visit by theteam, led by Hyacinth Abutu  was to inspect and ascertain the level of work done on the estimated N538, 895,868 ongoing bridge projects.

They arrived in Osogbo and was taken to the site of the project by the Federal Controller of Works for Osun, Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, Kehinde Olawale.

According to Olawale, the project was just 41% completed and that the delay in completion was due to lack of adequate budgetary allocation.

He revealed that the bridge which was awarded to Preconsmith Construction Limited in March 2017 would serve the people plying Ogbomosho-Osogbo Road.

While noting that the project has been dragging due to lack of funds from the government to complete it, Olawale said so far, N202, 861, 823 had been paid to the contractor for the 45-metre bridge and that an interim statement had been sent to the ministry in Abuja for funds to complete it.

He said once money was made available, beams would be cast on the bridge and work would be completed, latest by August.

After inspecting the level of work done on the bridge, Abutu, who is an Assistant Director in the Directorate of Policy and Standard said the work done so far was good and of good quality.

“The quality of work undertaken by the contractor is very good from our assessment and the percentage of work they claimed to have completed equally tallies with what is on the ground.

“Also from our interaction with those handling the project, we discover that the major impediment of the project is lack of funding. From here, we are going to make a strong recommendation to the government to increase the funding for the project in order to serve the purpose for which it was intended,” he said.

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