By Dennis Agbo

ABAKALIKI— The South East Zonal working committee, ZWC,of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to overhaul the federal ministry of works which the ruling party alleged that its workers are incompetent, out of fashion and too corrupt to effectively implement President Jonathan’s policy on roads constructions and rehabilitations.

The ZWC in a statement in Abakaliki through its Publicity Secretary, Ali Odefa, lamented the “ineffective supervision of federal roads in the south-east especially the ones that are currently under reconstructions that are poorly done, advising President Jonathan to recruit fresh engineers into the ministry and do away with old ones that the party described as obsolete civil servants.

“The directors and engineers in that ministry have failed the south-east. It is worthy of mention that these array of obsolete engineers are living in the past and are about a century behind. They are non-compliant and not in-tune with the agenda and developmental strides of Mr. President, Dr. Ebele Jonathan Goodluck.”

The party noted that evidently, “the deplorable state of roads in the South-east geopolitical zone is due to incompetence, poor or no supervision by relevant officers of the federal ministry of works who  rather than pursue professional competence and premium quality are blinded by pecuniary gains at the expense of the good people of the south-east.

“In the light of the foregoing therefore, the Zonal Working Committee is passionately appealing to Mr. President to carry out a major overhaul of that corruption ridden ministry and get rid of those engineers and directors who have become demi-gods, incompetent and difficult to train and inject new blood into the system for better performance.”

The ZWC  also requested from the president to, as a matter of urgency, “approve the immediate recruitment of young engineers, fresh from school who are in tune with changing global trends in the industry and who will do better than the lot we have now.”