Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has accused the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) led federal and state governments of contract
duplication on the Queen Ede Gully Erosion Project at Ogbeson community
in Benin City, the Edo State capital.
Governor Oshiomhole made this known at the formal flagging off of the World Bank-assisted reclamation works at the Queen Ede Gully Erosion project in Benin City which will gulp N2.7 billion.
He said, “You have a real scandal when Edo State government under PDP awarded this project and paid for it and the PDP federal government awarded the same contract and also paid for it. They both claimed they were doing the job, but as you can see, they simply caused more complications.
“They constructed a small drain to take the water out of the road without taking it to the ultimate destination. That was how the crack started. If they had fixed it properly, it could have cost us less than N5 million today.
“When my attention was drawn by the Edo State Ministry of Works to the fact that this erosion was caused by a design error when the Asaba Road was being constructed by the Federal Ministry of Works, I wrote to Abuja to complain about the erosion challenges in this place. I listed quite a number of erosion sites in the state including the Queen Ede Erosion problem.”
Oshiomhole added, “When I asked for the project report, the ministry officials told me ‘job is on-going’ and subsequently, I invited the officials to accompany me to show me what they meant by ‘the job is on-going’. What I saw here was an abandoned equipment; there was no single worker on site. That is what they meant by ‘the job is on-going’ but that was not the only thing I found very strange.
Governor Oshiomhole made this known at the formal flagging off of the World Bank-assisted reclamation works at the Queen Ede Gully Erosion project in Benin City which will gulp N2.7 billion.
He said, “You have a real scandal when Edo State government under PDP awarded this project and paid for it and the PDP federal government awarded the same contract and also paid for it. They both claimed they were doing the job, but as you can see, they simply caused more complications.
“They constructed a small drain to take the water out of the road without taking it to the ultimate destination. That was how the crack started. If they had fixed it properly, it could have cost us less than N5 million today.
“When my attention was drawn by the Edo State Ministry of Works to the fact that this erosion was caused by a design error when the Asaba Road was being constructed by the Federal Ministry of Works, I wrote to Abuja to complain about the erosion challenges in this place. I listed quite a number of erosion sites in the state including the Queen Ede Erosion problem.”
Oshiomhole added, “When I asked for the project report, the ministry officials told me ‘job is on-going’ and subsequently, I invited the officials to accompany me to show me what they meant by ‘the job is on-going’. What I saw here was an abandoned equipment; there was no single worker on site. That is what they meant by ‘the job is on-going’ but that was not the only thing I found very strange.
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