Oyo to sanction contractors for poor construction
The Oyo state
commissioner for education, Nureni Adeniran, has threatened to sanction
contractors who did shoddy work in school projects they handled for the
state. The commissioner, speaking at the conference room of the
Ministry of Education, Ibadan, on Thursday, during a meeting with
contractors handling state and Petroleum Trust Fund projects in schools
across the state.
According to him,
the government is already considering coming down hard on any
contractor who chooses to abandon or delay work on projects. Saying
that the ministry has made a commitment to the state government that
all construction will be completed by the first quarter of 2011, Mr.
Adeniran urged the contractors to make it happen. He admonished them to
keep records of their jobs and ensure that all projects are executed to
specifications.
Quality job
Meanwhile, the commissioner has also stated that the regime of
automatic promotion for primary and secondary schools pupils was over
in the state. He said this when the chairman of the state’s Universal
Basic Education, Soji Adejumo, and other members of his board paid a
courtesy call to the commissioner in his office yesterday. Reacting to
the mass failure of students in external examinations, the commissioner
said the students must work hard to earn promotion to upper classes.
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