Following his displeasure over the lackadaisical attitudes of some contractors to the execution of projects in Delta State, the state governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, has threatened to blacklist them if they fail to sit up within the next three months.
Uduaghan made this known on Thursday when he summoned them to the board room of the Ministry of Works in Asaba on Thursday.
The governor was represented at the meeting by his Commissioner for Works, Hon Funkekeme Solomon.
He said the affected contractors have only three months to complete the projects or face the wrath of the government. This threat has forced contracting firms in the state to hurry back to site.
Uduaghan, who has since early last year vowed to finish strong, said he would not allow any contractor to tarnish his record.
Solomon, also the Director of Communications for Okowa Campaign Organization, informed the contractors that the governor has drawn a time-table of unscheduled visit to project sites.
While he urged the contractors, including the ULO Consultant Setraco, CCC Construction Company and over 20 others, to make use of the dry season period, he said he would spend the remaining four months of his administration to monitor and repudiate tepid ones.
He warned that he would not hesitate to drag any failed contractor to court.
Uduaghan said the fly-overs in Asaba and Warri and construction of bridges across the state must be completed before May 29.
He hinted that the state would soon categorize its projects in their stages of performance by marking them Poor, Average, Good and Excellent, with the names of the contracting firm handling them attached to it.
He added: “We are in the dry season, just as we have four months to go.
“We invited few of you here because we have realised that you have projects you need to fast track.
“Those of you working on the fly-overs and bridges have to redouble your efforts.
“His Excellency, the Governor, has directed that he wants to go into massive project commissioning in the next three months.
“We have planned to embark on unscheduled visit to project sites.
“Your work must be qualitative so that your reputation will not be damaged.
“We won’t handover uncompleted projects to the incoming administration of Senator Ifeanyi Okowa because there is no other party yet in this state to confront the Peoples Democratic Party.
“If you want to tarnish your official engagement with the state, then work for failure.
“Let me just advice and warn that any contractor that has plotted to abandon its project(s) because this administration is winding down, will be blacklisted.”
