SHAME, DISAPPOINTMENT AS GOV OBOREVWORI ADVANCES CUTLASS PROJECT M&E
January 28, 2025 | News
SHAME, DISAPPOINTMENT AS GOV OBOREVWORI ADVANCES CUTLASS PROJECT M&E
-By Zik Gbemre
SHAME, DISAPPOINTMENT AS GOV OBOREVWORI ADVANCES CUTLASS PROJECT M&E
We are worried, ashamed as another trending video surfaces on Governor Sheriff Oborevwori advancing his cutlass revolution on government in project Monitoring and Evaluation (M & E).
Governor Sheriff Oborevwori should hold, responsible, his commissioners for work, permanent secretaries, directors ,supervising engineers, monitors and even the state Accountant General for poor shoddy execution of roads and other infrastructures projects in the state.
It is display of ignorance and inferiority complex for a governor to award projects on partisan interest in defiance of merit, wait till the project is shoddily executed before hypocritically coming in public wielding a cutlass to declare a threats to blacklist contractors and sanction supervising engineers.
It is not always the case that shoddy jobs are products of contractors' incompetence. More often than not, it is as a result of deliberate compromise on awarded contract terms and agreements by government interfaces.
These failures happen when those in position to allocate values in contracting are desperate to collect inducements from contractors. To checkmate shoddy project execution, the governor, heads of Ministries, Agencies and Department (MDAs)
are to blame before scapegoating contractors.
You don't expect good jobs under a narrative of civil servants and officeholders seeing their engagement in government as a money spinning opportunity to feast on the commonwealth at the expense of the common good.
Every person wants to be in government not attracted by the statutory salaries and entitlements but on the unhindered freedom provided for looting.
I know many Delta politicians glued to every government in power to make a living. What do you expect when the governor awards contracts to political associates, friends and family as glorified contractors?
What do you expect when the governor, commissioners,
boards chairmen, permanent secretaries, directors, special project directors impose kickbacks and 'kickfronts' on contractors?
You don't expect quality infrastructural projects with these sorts of looters that are kept in the corridors of power since 1999. These looters leave the state impoverished by growing their private estates with
mansions and choice cars they own from pilfering on contracts funds they should be using to deliver quality infrastructural projects.
The governor should desist from the self mockery. If you engage a charlatan party man, family member or friends to do a fake project, don't come out in the public to threaten sanctioning the contractor or engineers. That amounts to indicting and making fool of the state government. That is how not to do 'holy holy'.
The governor does not sanction by fiat. It is the contract that spells sanctions to the level of the terms and agreement signed by the client and contractor. It is the penalties spelt in the contracts that determine sanctions otherwise government as the project owner also fall guilty of breaching the contract.
How many times do we see the British Prime Minister and US President monitoring infrastructural projects under construction? How many times do we see the President and Ruler of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Emir and ruler of Qatar monitoring projects in their countries?
There has to be consequences for corrupt civil service workers and politicians in-charge of projects in Delta, but only if decorum starts from the governor. If the governor is not compromised, the corrupt civil servants will no have the temerity to compromise.
The poor jobs are not done by the contractors alone. It is funny when a governor is threatening to blacklist a contractor and the commissioner or agency head overseeing the contract is by his side, smiling with him, untouched while the contractor is admitting to compromising the BEME (Bill of Engineering Measurement and Evaluation) in a contract the commissioner is chief supervisor.
Shoddy contracts start from the awarding stage through poor monitoring to completion. If anyone deserves consequence action to be taken against them, it should start from the commissioners, permanent secretaries, directors and monitors.
Where are these people appointed by Governor Oborevwori to monitor and evaluate projects? Monitoring and Evaluation of on going projects is not only by going to sites with cameras to act scripts. It is much more than that.
It involves seeing through the entire projects from award stage and to the completion stage without civil service workers and politicians from taking bribes.
When civil service workers and politicians are alleged to collect 50 to 60% of the contract sum then why do you expect the contractor to do a good job?
Too many leakages in contracting in Delta state government. Governor Oborevwori should stop all these mockery in the name of project inspections. It is mere script acting. He should know where the problem lies.
Zik Gbemre
January 28,2025
We Mobilize To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes
SHAME, DISAPPOINTMENT AS GOV OBOREVWORI ADVANCES CUTLASS PROJECT M&E
We are worried, ashamed as another trending video surfaces on Governor Sheriff Oborevwori advancing his cutlass revolution on government in project Monitoring and Evaluation (M & E).
Governor Sheriff Oborevwori should hold, responsible, his commissioners for work, permanent secretaries, directors ,supervising engineers, monitors and even the state Accountant General for poor shoddy execution of roads and other infrastructures projects in the state.
It is display of ignorance and inferiority complex for a governor to award projects on partisan interest in defiance of merit, wait till the project is shoddily executed before hypocritically coming in public wielding a cutlass to declare a threats to blacklist contractors and sanction supervising engineers.
It is not always the case that shoddy jobs are products of contractors' incompetence. More often than not, it is as a result of deliberate compromise on awarded contract terms and agreements by government interfaces.
These failures happen when those in position to allocate values in contracting are desperate to collect inducements from contractors. To checkmate shoddy project execution, the governor, heads of Ministries, Agencies and Department (MDAs)
are to blame before scapegoating contractors.
You don't expect good jobs under a narrative of civil servants and officeholders seeing their engagement in government as a money spinning opportunity to feast on the commonwealth at the expense of the common good.
Every person wants to be in government not attracted by the statutory salaries and entitlements but on the unhindered freedom provided for looting.
I know many Delta politicians glued to every government in power to make a living. What do you expect when the governor awards contracts to political associates, friends and family as glorified contractors?
What do you expect when the governor, commissioners,
boards chairmen, permanent secretaries, directors, special project directors impose kickbacks and 'kickfronts' on contractors?
You don't expect quality infrastructural projects with these sorts of looters that are kept in the corridors of power since 1999. These looters leave the state impoverished by growing their private estates with
mansions and choice cars they own from pilfering on contracts funds they should be using to deliver quality infrastructural projects.
The governor should desist from the self mockery. If you engage a charlatan party man, family member or friends to do a fake project, don't come out in the public to threaten sanctioning the contractor or engineers. That amounts to indicting and making fool of the state government. That is how not to do 'holy holy'.
The governor does not sanction by fiat. It is the contract that spells sanctions to the level of the terms and agreement signed by the client and contractor. It is the penalties spelt in the contracts that determine sanctions otherwise government as the project owner also fall guilty of breaching the contract.
How many times do we see the British Prime Minister and US President monitoring infrastructural projects under construction? How many times do we see the President and Ruler of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Emir and ruler of Qatar monitoring projects in their countries?
There has to be consequences for corrupt civil service workers and politicians in-charge of projects in Delta, but only if decorum starts from the governor. If the governor is not compromised, the corrupt civil servants will no have the temerity to compromise.
The poor jobs are not done by the contractors alone. It is funny when a governor is threatening to blacklist a contractor and the commissioner or agency head overseeing the contract is by his side, smiling with him, untouched while the contractor is admitting to compromising the BEME (Bill of Engineering Measurement and Evaluation) in a contract the commissioner is chief supervisor.
Shoddy contracts start from the awarding stage through poor monitoring to completion. If anyone deserves consequence action to be taken against them, it should start from the commissioners, permanent secretaries, directors and monitors.
Where are these people appointed by Governor Oborevwori to monitor and evaluate projects? Monitoring and Evaluation of on going projects is not only by going to sites with cameras to act scripts. It is much more than that.
It involves seeing through the entire projects from award stage and to the completion stage without civil service workers and politicians from taking bribes.
When civil service workers and politicians are alleged to collect 50 to 60% of the contract sum then why do you expect the contractor to do a good job?
Too many leakages in contracting in Delta state government. Governor Oborevwori should stop all these mockery in the name of project inspections. It is mere script acting. He should know where the problem lies.
Zik Gbemre
January 28,2025
We Mobilize To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes