Ogun State Government has commended the Rural Access And Agricultural Marketing Project (RAAMP) for the conception and development of applications to ensure that contractors handling road projects in the hinterland do jobs to specification.
Commissioner for Rural Development in the state, Mr Taiwo Oludotun, who gave the commendation during the kick-off of a three-day training on the Nigeria Rural Transportation Infrastructure Management System (NiRTIMS), to allow for road prioritisation in the country, said the “evil of project abandonment will be drastically reduced when the applications are fully deployed.”
Oludotun, who was supported by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Mr. Adetunjj Kanimodo, assured the Federal Project Management Unit (FPMU) of total cooperation for the success of the projects, just as he stressed the importance of the Construction site and monitoring system (CosMos) for real-time monitoring of projects.
“50 percent solution to the problem of abandoned projects is assured with these applications. It aligns with the vision and mission of this government under the ISEYA mantra which starts with Infrastructure,” Oludotun stated at training where Geographic Information System and Infrastructure Engineers in RAAMP’s 13 states are being trained.
Earlier in his remark, the representative of the National Coordinator of RAAMP, Bukar-Gana, said the nation would be “helped a great deal with the real time response by beneficiaries of projects to possible infractions on project specification by contractor.”
He commended the state government for putting up what he described as superlative arrangement, despite the short notice given on the commencement of the training.