Kwara State Government said yesterday that about 90 per cent of its over 22 infrastructural projects were being handled by indigenous contractors.
Commissioner for Works, Suleiman Iliasu, told reporters in Ilorin during an inspection visits to some of the ongoing project sites.
He said projects such as roads and flyovers were located in the three senatorial districts.
The commissioner said the government had collated a list of local contractors at the inception of the administration towards patronising them, adding: “We want indigenes to get the best in what we are doing.”
“We believe they will do well with strict supervision on our part in order to adhere to scope of work as stipulated in the contract. Most of our road projects are being done by local contractors who have lots of other investments in the state spanning long years. Their workers are indigenes of the state. We want ‘Kwarans’ to get the best in what we are doing.”
He listed some of the projects to include dualisation of Yebumot-Adeta Roundabout-Oloje road, General Babatunde Idiagbon flyover at Tanke, Tanke-Oke Odo ring road, St. Clair’s road, Offa, Banni township road in Kaiama Local Government, Osi-Obbo road, Abdul Azeez-Oja Oba road, Ilorin, Ibrahim Taiwo-Ita Amodu road, Ilesa-Baruba Gwanara road, Ilesa-Baruba township road, Owode-Ofara-Alabe road, Ooloru township road in Moro local government, Lanwa road, Otte and Eyenkorin roads leading to Balah community in the Asa Local Government.
Iliasu said that most of the infrastructural projects were aimed to attract investors, adding that investors always want to see what government has on ground before they come in.