Kwale County Governor Fatuma Achani has warned contractors handling various projects in the county against doing shoddy jobs.
Achani has declared that her administration will not accept substandard, poor quality and incomplete works from contractors.
She warned it would not be ‘business as usual,’ adding projects for public use should be competently executed on time to avoid cases of time and cost overruns and abandonment.
She says poor project implementation and outright abandonment of projects is attributed to lack of technical know-how on specific projects and corruption tendencies amongst others.
Achani has read the riot act to contractors handling various county projects to deliver quality jobs and at stipulated timeframe or risk having their contracts terminated.
She said this when she inspected various ongoing projects such as integrated early childhood development (ECD) classes, dispensaries, water services, roads, bus parks and markets spread across Msambweni and Kinango sub counties.
The county boss insisted that the devolved unit will not hesitate to blacklist any contractor who failed to perform satisfactorily.
“My administration will not and will never accept any job by any contractor that is not up to standard and not delivered within the given timeframe and in accordance with our specifications and engineering standards,” she said outside the new Ukunda retail market at Mvindeni in Ukunda ward, Msambweni Sub County.
She went further ‘as such any substandard job by a contractor will be revoked and such company blacklisted and will never be considered by the county in future projects’.
Once completed, the new Ukunda retail market will accommodate over 1,000 fresh produce traders currently operating at the Ukunda ASK showground.
“The project, which is almost complete consists of a perimeter wall, bus terminus, essential health and sanitary facilities and floodlights and will be opened to the public by the end of December,” she said.
The governor also warned that her administration has zero tolerance for corruption in whatever form.
Achani warned county officials involved in project implementations to desist from acts inimical to the interest of the people, saying that conniving with unscrupulous contractors to deliver substandard jobs is tantamount to corruption of the worst order, for which there will be no mercy shown to anyone found culpable.
By Hussein Abdullahi
