Explains why he suspended Works Commissioner
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has announced that
the state government will construct a central abattoir for the state
capital that will cater for the needs of Port Harcourt City and
Obio/Akpor Local Government Areas.
The governor also explained that he suspended the State Works
Commissioner, Mr Kevin Wachukwu because of negligence of
duty and failure to monitor projects effectively.
Addressing Journalists in Port Harcourt on Saturday after visiting
the site of the new central abattoir , Governor Wike said other
abattoirs in Port Harcourt and Obio/Akpor Local Government
Areas will be closed when the central abattoir to be located at
Elelenwo-Akpajo road is completed.
The governor noted that the new abattoir will have modern
slaughter facilities and open stalls for small vegetable and other
traders.
He also inspected ongoing construction work on the second
Nkpogu-NLNG bridge and the Peter Odili road. At the Nkpogu-
NLNG bridge, Governor Wike charged the contractor, MCC
construction Limited to ensure quality execution of the project.
On the suspension of the Works Commissioner, Governor Wike
said he was at three project sites on Friday only to notice that the
Works Commissioner failed to deploy site engineers to monitor
the execution of the contracts from the standpoint of the state
government.
According to him: "This is the time to deliver good governance to
the people of Rivers State and I will not tolerate negligence of
duty. The failure to deploy site engineers to these project three
project sites means that the government and people of the state
can be short-changed via poor quality delivery. The contracts
have provision for site engineers and project vehicles. There was
no reason why it was not enforced.
"If I am always at project sites supervising the quality and pace of
work, there is no reason why the commissioner should not do the
same. This goes to other Commissioners. We are in the era of
governance and every official must work for the people of the
state ".
A statement by Simeon Nwakaudu, Special Assistant to the Rivers
State Governor on Electronic Media noted that the governor was
accompanied on the Saturday project inspection by Member-elect
Port Harcourt Federal Constituency 1, Mr Ken Chikere, Chairman
of MCC, Senator John Mbata, Senator Lee Maeba, Chairman of
Rivers State PDP, Bro Felix Obuah, Chief Staff to the Governor,
Engineer Emeka Woke, State Lawmakers, Victor Ihunwo and Major
Jack.
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