FG To Rehabilitate Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway Before December

The Managing Director of the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA), Mr Gabriel Amuchi, has said that bad spots on the Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway would be rehabilitated before Christmas.

Amuchi gave the assurance in Enugu while inspecting the progress of work on the road and said the measure was palliative to make the road useable.

He said the road maintenance would be done by four contractors and through direct labour, ahead of its reconstruction next year.

According to him, FERMA is concentrating on economically viable and critical highways to make them useable before December.

“After December, government is considering total rehabilitation of all federal roads in the country as well as creation of other access roads,“ Amuchi said.

The managing director said all the contractors had been fully mobilised and as such there was no reason for work to stop at any point of the rehabilitation and ordered the relocation of the cattle market on Lokpanta, Abia, to prevent obstruction on the highway and warned drivers of articulated vehicles against parking on the roadside.

Amuchi urged the contractors to ensure speedy completion of the work before the deadline.

Some of the roads inspected by the team were Owerri-Okigwe, Umuahia-Bende and Enugu-Okigwe and Umuahia-Port Harcourt wing of the expressway.