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Lagos To Monitor Council Projects

Posted by Anishere Ola Raheem on July 27, 2010 at 11:52am
Lagos State government will ensure that the projects carried out by the 20 local governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) conform with the laid down regulations, the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Prince Rotimi Agunsoye, has said. The commissioner who spoke on the guidelines for project implementation at the grassroots said that adherence to them would enhance service delivery. ‘We need to make sure that supervision and monitoring of projects for effective service delivery at the local government level conforms to the laid down principles and standards of the state. ‘We must not allow mediocrity, negligence, non-challant attitude and recklessness to and threaten the survival of our dear state’, Agunsoye told reporters in Ikeja. The commissioner said that the Project Monitoring Department was created to insist on the regulations for the purpose of ensuring even development for the wider segment of the population. Agunsoye stressed that the department which has been receiving petitions from the councils about project execution would guided by the rules and regulations that stipulated the conditions which must be met to secure approval for the implementation of projects and programmes. He said that the ministry had issued out comprehensive guidelines and specifications of works and materials to be usd by the councils in the construction of roads, drainages, buildings and other infrastructure to ensure standard and durability of projects. ‘Local governments in each senatorial district have been advised to hold consultations with relevant professional bodies to raise joint teams of construction and industrial professionals, including architects, engineers, builders and quantity surveyors to profer solutions, monitor and certify infrastructural projects on behalf of the councils’, Agunsoye added.
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