Port Harcourt — CONTRACTORS handling model school projects for the Rivers State government have been giving marching orders to go back to site or risk revocation of their contracts.

Handing down a seven day ultimatum to the contractors , deputy governor of the state, Mr. Tele Ikuru, said the government was saddened by their conducts.

He wondered why they were foot-dragging on the projects when the state government had met its own part of the bargain

Mr. Ikuru emphasized that the aim of awarding the contracts to Rivers indigenes was to empower them economically and encouraged them to complete the projects on schedule as government intended to commission them by June.

"We want our people to have access to Rivers' funds and for our children to have quality education. We cannot afford to fail, so I urge you to mobilize to site and deliver on these projects," the deputy governor stressed.

He stated that laxity on the part of the contractors in delivering on the projects was inimical to government's desire to providing qualitative education to Rivers' children and warned against further delay.

He explained that the idea of building the 250 schools was part of government's effort at addressing structural defects facing primary education in the state and urged the contractor to assume a more positive approach to executing the projects.

According to him, the Governor Chibuike Amaechi-led administration is focused on building the entrepreneurial capacity of Rivers people, pointing out that "we are not going to compromise on quality; we insist strongly on quality".

Earlier, the State Commissioner for Education, Dame Alice Nemi, had said that the lackluster attitude of some of the contractors was delaying the good intentions of the government, urging them to show greater commitment.