By: Aruna Kamara (BO)
Some of the councillors at the Bo City Council have registered their disappointment at some of the road contractors, who have received thirty per cent of payment but have not started their work,
Speaking at the monthly council meeting in Bo last week, the Chairman of the Development and Planning Committee, Abu Bakarr Lansana said that “there should be a joint monitoring team to the projects sit that will comprise of the monitoring and evaluation officer and the committee members”.
He said that the administration of the Bo City Council should call on marginal construction companies and other companies that have not yet completed their work to explain what is responsible for the delay.
“I am largely affected in my ward 279 and it is good that the administration of the Bo City council caution them to Fast-track the work as this is a raining season,” Councillor Lansana said.
Some of the residents of Ward 279 told this medium that drastic action should be taken against the contractors, noting that the anti-corruption commission should come in to investigate the companies who are reneging on doing the work they have been part of, even when it is part payment done.
Reacting to the concern at the Bo City Council monthly meeting the Chief administrator of the Bo City Council, Veronica Fortune said that “six or seven sites have not yet been done and there are five lots and in every lot, we have three or four project sites.”
She said that when he asked the engineer to give her an analysis in terms of the percentage of the work done, the contractors said that they cannot tackle all the projects at the same time but they have done at least 40% of the work.
Madam Fortune said that “it is not left with the council to decide on when we will make the second tranche payment to contractors.”
Some Civil Society activists in Bo told A-Z Newspaper said that they are monitoring the road project in Bo and will come out with their analysis as a report.
