DELTA ROADS TO BE TESTED FOR 2 YRARS BEFORE FULL CONTRACT PAYMENT – Aniagwu

Delta State Executive Council  has extended the payment of retained funds otherwise known as “retention” to contractors to two years.

With this development, any road project would have survived two rainy seasons and certified to be of standard before payment is made to the contractor in full.

Delta Commissioner for Information, Charles Aniagwu, made this known while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the council’s Wednesday meeting presided over by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa

Aniagwu, who was joined by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Olisa Ifejika, said Governor Okowa was not only committed to the construction of roads across the state, the roads must stand the test of time.

” At the end of one year from the two-year period, 50 per cent of the five per cent retention fee will be paid while leaving behind another 50 percent; so that after two years and we are satisfied that the contractor has done a good job, the remaining 50 per cent of that retention fee will be paid to that particular contractor,” he said.

Aniagwu said council also approved the construction of township roads in Benekruku, Warri South West Local Government Area, as well as the construction of storm water drainage projects along Ogwashi-Uku/Ubulu-Uku/Ubulu-Unor road.

Also approved by Exco is the renaming of the Directorate of Youth Development to the Ministry of Youth Development, and award of contracts for the construction of eight out of the nine technical colleges approved in the first phase of the establishment of 19 new technical colleges across the state.