The House of Representatives Committee on Area Councils and Ancillary Matters, has urged extensive engineering designs of road intervention projects by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA).
The Committe, led by Hon. Frederick Agbedi expressed concerns, Thursday during its oversight visit to the 15 kilometre A2-Pai road, and the 11 kilometre Yangoji-Sukuku road, all in the Kwali Area Council of the FCT, being executed by the Satellite Towns Development Department (STDD) of the FCTA.
Resident Engineer of the STDD, Engr. Ibrahim Isa Kangiwa, had informed the committee that the design of the A2-Pai road was jointly done by the department’s experts and those of the contractor; ZEBERCED Construction Limited.
The committee was however not satisfied with oral explanations on the engineering design, insisting that the agency supply the paper work to its secretariat by next Monday.
“We have seen a number of roads, today we started from the Pai road and now we are at Sukuku, and I think development has gotten closer to our people. We have seen the much that the minister and the minister of state and their officers have done based on appropriations.
“We however, had some reservations on some of the issues; we observed that some things may have been done better, as to costs, as to designs and further amendments as to appropriations that could have been done better, but we have resolved to engage with the minister to make sure that we have a better way of addressing those observations.
“We will say that they have done well, the leaders of the ministry have done well. No one is perfect but we need to get certain things done right so that we should be able to know budget subheads, costs of projects, extensive design of projects and then the implementation.
“Because if you don’t have an extensive design of a project, you wouldn’t know to the extent which a contractor is completing the project . These observations, we will take home as a committee and later interface with the ministry of the FCT and the department to make sure that we render good services to the people of the FCT,” he said.
