Rivers State Governor Chibuike Amaechi has unveiled a scientific contrivance kenned as Automated Road Analyser to monitor the execution of road projects.
Amaechi, who unveiled the ARAN conveyances at the Government House in Port Harcourt on Friday, verbally expressed the contrivance would ascertain that projects were executed according to designations.
The governor verbally expressed the conveyances would be driven on incipiently constructed roads to determine their quality, integrating that the quantification would check fraudulent activities by some contractors who failed to adhere to project designations.
Amaechi verbally expressed, “The project has been commissioned already by what I directed them to do. I asked them to take the quantification of the quantities on Ada George Road because we have paid up a plethora of mazuma on Ada George.
“The road is supposed to peregrinate from 15cm to 80cm both on the wearing cost and the final cost so that it can last for a very, very long time. The same quality of work we did on Port Harcourt-Owerri Road. There is withal Elioparanwo Road where I withal asked them to take quantifications.
“What this does for you is that contractors who are habituated to fraud in road construction will now ken that they cannot prosper because as they are working, these conveyances are expected to take quantifications of the quantities that they have inserted place.
“There are quantities on all contracts and most contractors who want to cheat you will just not do that because you can’t optically discern the quantities unless you quantify by scientific denotes. What this does is that you bring science and technology into monitoring and evaluation of the work that they have done.”
The governor expounded that the monitoring contrivances would be manned by trained personnel from the state Ministry of Works and from the Office of the Board of Project Procurement.
