Tambuwal challenges citizens as PMB’s minister urges govs over abandoned projects
Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state has urged people at local government levels to closely monitor all state government projects in their localities, and report any delay or circumvention of laid down procedures by contractors and their supervisors.
This was disclosed in a statement issued by the governor’s spokesman, Malam Imam Imam after a meeting with the 23 local government chairmen.
Tambuwal urges citizens to protect Sokoto's state projects and report any defaulting contractor
The statement read: “Since these projects are meant to benefit the communities directly, our people should endeavour to be at the forefront of protecting them. The contractors are on site and the supervisors have been doing a good job of monitoring the progress of the projects, but I want to urge the people to take the lead in ensuring quality is maintained.”
Tambuwal said various projects are presently on-going in various sectors like health, education and agriculture, and government will do more to meet the yearnings and aspirations of the people.
While urging the local government councils to be prudent in expenditure considering the precarious financial situation in the country, the governor urged them to look within by diversifying revenue sources.
“We need to double our efforts in enhancing internal revenue in the state. The local councils have an important role to play in that regard,” he added.
Tambuwal’s remark comes hours after former governor of Anambra state and Minister of La¬bour and Productivity, Senator Chris Ngige, charged governors to fix federal roads traversing their states instead of waiting for federal inter¬vention which could be long in coming.
Ngige, who gave the charge in Umuahia, Abia state, argued that it makes no sense for the governors to keep complaining about the deplorable condition of federal roads in their states when they could help in rehabilitating them, at least, for the sake of their people who are the major users of such roads.
He boasted that while he was governor, he re¬built most of the dilapi¬dated federal roads in Anambra while his suc¬cessor in office was later reimbursed by the fed¬eral government.
He said: “I re-built three quar¬ter of all federal roads in Anambra and later went for refund, but Peter col¬lected the refund of N12 billion.”