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Contractor Assures Completion Of 65 Kilometres Moniya-Iseyin Road
Contractor handling the construction of the 65-kilometers Moniya-Iseyin road, KOPEK Construction Company, has said that it would complete the project within the time frame given by the Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde.
The road contract, which was revoked after being abandoned by the former contractor was re-awarded in November 2019 with a completion time frame of one year.
The Project Manager, KOPEK Construction Company, Paul Chamoun, while answering questions from journalists, on Friday, in Ibadan, said the company had resumed work immediately after the Yuletide; at resumption, the company, he said, filled all notable craters and potholes while constructing culverts and line drainages.
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He said: “Immediately we resumed from the new year break, we started mobilization…The percentage of work to be covered will increase rapidly after all these preliminary works are concluded and we start asphaltic laying, we will not disappoint the people and the government.”
The Site Engineer who supervised the project on behalf of the State Ministry of works and Transport, Engr. Olaide Fadare, in his response, said the present administration re-awarded the road project after revoking the contract with the former contractor to ease the pain of the people plying the road and communities along the way.
He said the government realized the importance of the road as the link between Ibadan, the State capital and Oke-Ogun, which was noted to be ‘food basket’ of the State, adding that economic growth of the State through agriculture would be maximized when the road is completed.
“The road has been one of the most important roads that the present administration put keen interest on and that is why it was re-awarded immediately due to the fact that they noticed the professional inadequacies of the former contractor,” he said.
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