PDP demands investigation into alleged shoddy multi-billion naira road project

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kebbi has urged Governor Nasir Idris to investigate what it described as the shoddy execution of the multi-billion naira Yauri township roads project in the state.

The Secretary of the party in the state, Alhaji Abubakar Bawa-Kalgo, appealed in a statement in Birnin Kebbi on Tuesday.

“PDP is appalled by the shoddy execution of the ongoing multi-billion naira Yauri township roads project; it’s most unfortunate and extremely distasteful.

“Several reports from Yauri confirmed that some roads are already caving in and breaking apart barely a few months after completion due to the shoddy nature of the job executed by the contractors.

“It is, therefore, imperative that the State Ministry of Works take full responsibility for this glaring contractual breach and promptly take the necessary steps to make amends to salvage the situation.

“Under this, PDP is calling on Gov. Nasir Idris’ government to take a firm stance against its officials found wanting in the effective discharge of their assigned duties to serve as a deterrent to others,” he advised.

This, Bawa-Kalgo said, would hopefully save the state from the resulting wastage of its scarce resources without extracting the commensurate value from that place.

He lamented that projects of such importance, with direct bearing on poor people, should not be allowed to be compromised.

“PDP is extremely shocked that a project of this magnitude can be compromised in this manner so soon, in spite of the earlier flag raised by some vigilant residents of Yauri at the commencement of the project.

“This is so when some of the drainages being constructed were easily washed away by rainfall early this year,” Bawa-Kalgo said.