By Olasunkanmi Akoni

The Lagos State Goverment has warned contractors handling various of its housing projects to deliver all aspects of the projects as scheduled in all contract agreements or have the contracts terminated.

State’s Commissioner for Housing, Moruf Akinderu-Fatai, who gave the warning, vowed that such revoked contracts would be immediately re- awarded to those who will deliver on schedule.

Akinderu-Fatai had earlier expressed his displeasure and dissatisfaction on the level of work done during a routine inspection to Sangotedo Housing Estate, Eti Osa Phase 2, lamenting that “the project is yet to get to the expected level despite Lagos State Government commitment and support to the contractors.

The commissioner repeated his dissatisfaction after an evaluation of the projects, formal briefs from project supervisors and a follow up meeting between the Ministry’s technical team and the project contractors at the Ministry’s Conference Room at the Secretariat, Alausa, yesterday.

He frowned at the slow pace of work witnessed at some of the project sites visited and directed the affected contractors to increase the speed of work or be excused from the sites.

Akinderu-Fatai expressed the dissatisfaction of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on the inability of most of the contractors to adhere to the agreed time of delivery on various aspect of the projects. ‘’Shifting of completion period by contractors will no longer be tolerated because we will not allow you to slow us down’’

He reiterated the pressure on government to deliver on all its promises especially in the housing sector.

The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry Engineer Abdulhafis Toriola, therefore , urged the contractors to ensure they deliver every facet of the project as scheduled without compromising quality.

The project review meeting was attended by heads of technical departments ad supervising officials.

The Sangotedo Housing Estates Phase 2 after completion will comprise of about 43 blocks and is expected to add over 500 home units to the existing stock.

The first phase of the project consisting of 744 home units was delivered and commissioned by Governor Sanwo-Olu in December last year.