I inherited over 20 uncompleted roads from Saraki- Gov Ahmed

Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has said that no contractor handling any ongoing government project in the state has any reason to abandon site as funds have been made available to them.

Ahmed, who spoke with newsmen in Ilorin, said that the state government had put in place a funding arrangement from the Kwara Infrastructure Development Fund that had guaranteed ‘‘auto- run ’’ of all ongoing projects, saying, ‘‘On no account should any contractor leave site now’’.
 
The governor said that his administration had also completed no fewer than 20 road projects it inherited from his predecessor and also constructed more.He disclosed that all the ongoing projects feeding from the state’s I-FK fund have ‘‘been designed and destined for completion’’, adding that with the arrangement, no contractor had any justification not to be on site.
 
Ahmed said that the funding mechanism was designed to ensure quarterly release of funds to contractors as no contractor had been starved of funds.
 
‘‘It’s an auto-run, we have a steady amount that we give to contractors on quarterly basis .So, on no account should any contractor leave site now,” he said .
  
Ahmed, however, debunked rumour making the rounds that some companies had left the state because of multiple taxation, explaining that his administration had not introduced new taxes that would warrant such relocation.
 
The governor said that his government, as way of promoting the growth of businesses, had granted tax wavers for existing companies while a five-year tax holidays would be granted to pioneer Small and Medium  Enterprises in the state.