Odimmegwa Johnpeter/Abuja
The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Dr Shuaib Belgore has stated that the federal government would hasten work to deliver the federal Secretariat, Osogbo, Osun State to enable civil servants have better office accommodations to discharge their duties efficiently. This was contained in a statement signed by Badamasi S. Haiba, Fsca, Director, Press and Public Relations.
He spoke in Osogbo, Osun State, when he led an inspection team from his ministry on a tour of federal government’s projects ongoing in the state.
Dr Belgore noted that, work at the Osogbo Federal Secretariat, has reached an advanced stage of completion, saying that contracts for federal secretariats awarded same time with that of Osun were; Anambra, Bayelsa, Gombe, Nassarawa, and Zamfara states.
Expressing satisfaction with the quality and progress of work at Oshogbo, he assured the contractor that his request for variation would be secured to enable the release of funds needed for its completion.
Earlier, Engr Olakulehin Kabir, the project manager, Golden Construction Company Ltd, the contractors handling the work, told the team that the project has achieved 80 percent completion, and request the ministry to speed up approval for variation and release of funds to enable them deliver.
On the other hand, the Permanent Secretary has also observed appreaciable level of work in the ongoing work contruction of Osogbo Renewed Hope Estate, but charged the contractors to sit up and scale up work, pomising facilitating their payments after meeting their valuation requirements
” Government is enthusiastic and optimistic with this project, and will not hesitate to review and take decision, including termination of contract for non performing contractiors,” he emphasised
The Permanent Secretary finally visited the ministry’s field office in Osogbo, interacted with the staff, and commended them for their hard work in facilitating delivery of government’s projects in the State
He acknowledged their concern for inadequate professional staff, which he explained as a general concern even at the ministry headqarters.
Dr Belgore assured them that the ministry has made its operations easy interms of correspondences with the headquarters by going digital, saying that computers will be provided for field offices to ease their work
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