Liberia: Road Fund Manager Joseta Neufville-Wento Warns Contractors In opposition to Shoddy Road Development
Monrovia – National Road Fund (NRF) Manager Joseta Neufville-Wento, Joseta Neufville-Wento, has issued a stern warning to contractors concerned in street building initiatives, emphasizing that funds shall be withheld for these failing to stick to the contract specs or the Bill of Quantities (BoQ).
By Jaheim [email protected]
Madam Neufville-Wento and her entourage visited a number of street building websites, which embody the New Matadi Drive, Thinkers Village, Kpelle Town and the Chicken Soup Factory, to determine the extent of compliance from contractors who had been awarded contracts.
Speaking on the finish of the go to, Neufville-Wento disclosed that the staff noticed a number of detects from the websites, however they’ve communicated to the Ministry of Public Works, which is accountable for the monitoring and supervision of the continued street challenge, to stipulate what has been noticed.
She emphasised the significance of accountability and the necessity for all work to satisfy the agreed requirements, stressing that any deviation from the contractual phrases is not going to be tolerated.
Said Neufville-Wento, “We are intentional about ensuring value for money. If you are a contractor and you received money from the government to do a piece and you are not doing it up to standard, we will seize funding from your project until it is corrected. That means you will not get any money for your project.”
She known as on contractors who’re awarded contracts to do issues with intentionality. Accordingly, she acknowledged that the tour of those websites is one other step towards NFR compliance because the establishment had already made an advance fee.
“We have given them money to mobilize and start doing the work. What we are doing, in terms of compliance, we are doing financial compliance to see whether there is money that we have given them and the work they said they were going to do within the period they are doing it or not.”
She emphasised, “Before they finish their reports to send it to us for payment, if we don’t see those things corrected in the work, even with the contractors implementing, if we do not see it corrected, we will not make payments.”
Neufville-Wento, nonetheless, used the tour to name on residents to tackle the duty of sustaining growth inside their communities, as the federal government has restricted assets and an enormous demand for growth throughout the nation.
She defined that the difficulty of drainages is a significant problem affecting communities, particularly when locals are consistently constructing on the alley methods and disposing of filth in drainages, which usually block drainages.
“What we saw in terms of zoning along the major corridor of the roads, we see a lot of encroachment, because if we are doing roads, we have to consider the safety of the roads as well but when we got into the community we see that there is a clear violation of that right of way,” she stated.
Adding, “We have this constant garbage disposal problem where communities are disposing into the drainages. Some of the drainages have to be condemned, so the engineers have to design a new one, and even the new ones that they are designing and the ones that are already clean, we see people dumping dirty again.”
