HIBAPRESS – Ahmed Al-Musaid
Muhammad Al-Atfawi, the Governor of the Oriental region and the Governor of the Oujda-Angad prefecture, issued severe warnings to the contractors overseeing urban and rural development projects in the prefecture, emphasizing that the time of "leniency" with failures is over.
This came during an expanded working meeting held by the Governor with representatives of the contractors who won the tenders, where he placed "seriousness" as a basic condition for continuing the partnership with the administration. The meeting was a "station for frankness" about the reasons for the slow pace of some works witnessed by the city of Oujda and its affiliated rural communities. Al-Atfawi stressed in his speech the commitment to the specifications: the need to strictly adhere to the technical standards and agreed-upon quality without any reduction, and rigor in follow-up: activating field monitoring mechanisms by the institutions that own the projects to ensure that the completion matches the schedule, then proactivity and consultation: the governor called for adopting a participatory approach to resolve technical constraints at their source to avoid sudden stoppages of work. This move comes at a time when the voices of citizens and merchants are rising, especially after observing gaps in the Marrakech Street project, and demanding to speed up the pace of development, especially in the alleys and streets that have turned into open workshops for long periods, which affected the smooth flow of traffic and daily life. A well-informed source confirmed that the governor's language was clear, indicating that the administration would not hesitate to activate legal procedures, including the termination of contracts and the inclusion of negligent contractors in the "blacklist" if necessary. The meeting concluded with the development of a new roadmap that relies on periodic reports submitted to the governorate's services, with intensified surprise field visits to the workshops. The goal is not only to finish the projects, but to finish them with a quality that befits the aspirations of the residents of the Oriental region and the budgets allocated to them.
