22nd February, 2016
Eromosele Ebhomele
The Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Housing has summoned 28 out of the 30 contractors handling the state HOMS project in Ajara, Badagry area of the state.
The summoned contractors include: House Master Ltd, Threshold Global Investment Ltd, Mudal House Project Ltd, Comprehensive Homes Ltd, L&K Concept Ltd, Guinning Enterprises Ltd, Troy Construction and Developers Ltd, Intercom Ltd and Housing Alliance.
Others include: Telesis Signature, Data Alliance Nig. Ltd, Telesol Ltd, Aron Nig. Ltd, Leranod Ventures Ltd, Ex-valve, Jopam Agency, Mode House Agency Project Ltd and Bison Business Services Ltd.
Chairman Committee on Housing, Olanrewaju Layode, who led the committee on inspection tour of the project, summoned the defaulting contractors over the slow pace of work at the site.
“We are not impressed with the work done. Few contractors are on site while only some are able to go beyond average performance with the funds given to them.
“It is not encouraging at all, the scoring of New Town Development Authority does not reflect what is on ground for contractors who have received above 50 percent of funds and left the work far from average,” Layode said urging residents of the state to be patient with the government.
He also expressed displeasure over the insincerity of the New Town Development Area, NTDA, supervising the project for giving wrong rating of the project to the committee.
According to him, the House will later pass a resolution on the report of the committee which will be based on the responses of all invited contractors.
The site engineer from NTDA, Mr. Idris Ojurongbe, told the committee that some of the contractors were playing smart while others stopped due to poor financing of the project.