Lagos State Government today hosted a stakeholder’s forum on Contract Formation, Disputes Avoidance and Resolution to chart a way forward in ensuring proper project implementation.

In his address at the event, Lagos Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Adeniji Kazeem, said the forum would provide an opportunity where all parties involved in project execution for the State Government can bring their challenges to the fore, discuss them and chart the way forward.

Kazeem said it was expected that the Forum would engage in the discourse that would proffer solutions to the challenges bedeviling contractual relationship between Government and the Contractors’.

According to him, the mission statement of the Economic Empowerment and Development plan of the Akinwunmi Ambode Administration was to achieve a vision of poverty eradication and attain sustainable economic growth through infrastructural renewal and development.

He said government, like every other government in the world, engages the expertise and knowledge of people/institutions in the private sector to bring about this infrastructural renewal and development through commercial agreements with contractors.

Kazeem said this was achievable with the formalisation of various commercial transactions which include Contract Agreements, Consultancy Agreements, Concessions, Memorandum of Understanding.

The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice who spoke through Solicitor-General and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice Funlola Odunlami, said the forum was important because the roles as a government and contractors were critical to the well-being of the average Lagosian.

In her welcome remark, the Solicitor-General and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice Funlola Odunlami, said the forum was significant as it will educate and enlighten the populace on the subject matter.

She explained that the Forum has been put together to ensure that those who undertake and are saddled with the responsibility of monitoring these projects on behalf of government come together to brainstorm in order to have a clear understanding and ensure assignments are better executed and goals achieved.