All contracts that are yet to be executed or completed by contractors three years after they were awarded by the Oyo State Government may be terminated, the state Universal Basic Education Board has disclosed.
The Executive Chairman of SUBEB, Dr Nureni Adeniran, in a radio programme, on Friday, said the Board would sue defaulting contractors handling long overdue SUBEB/UBEC projects for abandoning or failing to execute awarded projects for which they received funds.
Adeniran noted that some contractors failed to justify the contracts awarded to them by the past administration in the state, while many outrightly abandoned them.
He said his experience on the Board afforded him the opportunity to uncover the dubious attitudes of contractors who rip off the state government for selfish ends.
In addition, he stated that the Board would recruit security guards to secure public primary schools in a bid to prevent the intrusion and vandalisation of public primary school property in the state.
The SUBEB chief, who said the project of four model schools had been awarded, added that the UBEC/SUBEB 2019 Intervention Project would aid the rebuilding of fence of some public primary schools in the state.
Adeniran said, “The stakeholders in the state education sector are developing a holistic and comprehensive approach to resolve the problem of inadequate infrastructures in public schools.
“The gratuity that the government has paid in just over one year is more than what the past administration paid in eight years. The Board is ready to assist the Ministry of Education in monitoring the common entrance examinations for primary six pupils.
“The Board will recruit more teachers so as to fill the deficit in number of available teachers in the state.”
