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UNIOSUN’s Abandoned Project Palaver: Assembly Threatens To Jail Erring Contractors

Feb 10th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Tits Bits

Osun State House of Assembly has began moves against some contractors who undertook abandoned projects in Osun State University (UNIOSUN), promising to jail any of them found wanton in the process of the fresh investigation that would be conducted on the condition of the projects across the five satellite campuses coupled with the main campus in Osogbo, the state capital.

In an anger laden voice, the House Speaker, Honourable Adejare Bello on the floor of the House on Monday, stressed that the house would take the advantage of the remaining period of this dispensation to go all hog into the investigation of the abandoned projects, insisting that some erring contractors would be sent to prison for their failure to do things right.

Bello then expressed his displeasure with the way some contactors have shortchanged the public by abandoning the projects they had been paid for after collecting money.

According to him: “I would not mind seeing the back of some erring contractors in the state in prison, because if anybody is found to have shortchanged the public, because the law establishing the university was made in this house, representing the aggregate views of the people, the affected contractors must be prepared to face the music”.

Warning other lawmakers in the house, Bello said that he would not listen to whoever comes back to him to plead for any erring contractor, arguing that some people take the state for granted because they believe that they are sacred cows.

Raising an eye brow over the way and manner the erring contractors cheated the state, Bello disclosed that he was in the know of a contractor who got his full payment for the projects he bidded without putting any structure on ground, saying that the same person went for variation and he got it, but still refused to do anything on the projects.

Lamenting the level of abandoned projects in all campuses, the lawmaker from Ayedaade State constituency, Honourable Femi Farounbi said that aside Osogbo and Okuku campuses that have semblance of university structure, other satellite campuses have nothing to show for the funds appropriated for the project as at the time of discussing the issue on the floor of the House.

He said: “Mr. Speaker, it is disgusting and unacceptable the way other satellite campuses of UNIOSUN are riddled with abandoned projects. When you get to Osogbo campus, there is a semblance of the university, when you get to Okuku, there is a semblance of university, but in other campuses, there is nothing on ground to show for the funds appropriated for it.”

Speaking on the matter, the lawmaker representing Egbedore State Constituency, Honourable Okun Obiremi argued that the case of abandoned projects should be criminalized by the law of the house.

Expressing his concern over the development arising from the variation of the contracts, the lawmaker representing Irewole State Constituency, Honourable Gbadebo Oyejide expressed his reservation over the reason that could have led the government to succumb to variation of the contracts from erring contractors, demanding to know whether it was right for the government to indulge in such an act.

The Deputy Speaker, Honourable Ropo oyewole then moved a motion calling for appearance of the Vice Chancellor, Registrar, all Provosts, due process office and office of Accountant-General with provision of documents relating to all projects, names of contractors, terms of payment and the list of the abandoned projects.

The motion was seconded by the Minority Leader, Honourable Timothy Owoeye and was unanimously adopted by the house

By goke butika

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