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GPHCDA, AFDB Partner On Infrastructure Dev
As part of efforts to realise the dreams of a world class city in Rivers State, the management of Greater Port Harcourt City Development Authority (GPHCDA) is partnering with the African Development Bank (AFDB) in the development of infrastructure and capacity building.
The administrator of GPHCDA, Mrs Aleruchi Cookey-Gram, disclosed this in Port Harcourt last week at a meeting with the representative of AFDB led by its resident representative, Dr Ousmane Dore.
Cookey-Gam explained the commitment of the present government in the areas of infrastructural development and urban renewal adding that the state government is constructing new roads (m1 &m10) that would link both old and the new city including both air and seaports in the state.
She further disclosed that the GPHCDA would built 30,000 residential units in Phase I adding that transparent procurement processes and other legal framework to drive infrastructure development in the area have been put in place.
She also listed out, new Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST), specialist hospital and sports prescient as some notable projects already embarked upon by the agency in the area.
Earlier in his speech, the new resident representative, African Development Bank (AFDB), Dr Ousmane Dore stated that the bank would collaborate with the agency in the area of infrastructural development and capacity building.
He said that AFDB is positive to promote social, economic and infrastructural development of organisations within the African continent.
Mercy Awari