FG Rehabilitates Roads In Ebonyi

The Federal Ministry of
Works last Monday said that it had begun the rehabilitation of federal roads in Ebonyi,
The Deputy Director of the ministry in the state, Mr Olufemi Oyekanmi, who stated this in Abakaliki, said work was already ongoing on four of the roads.
Oyekanmi told our correspondent that rehabilitation of the four roads was nearing completion.
The roads, according to him,  are Abakaliki-Enugu, Abakaliki-Oferekpe, Obiozara-Uburu-Mpu-Ishiagu-Enugu/Port Harcourt dual carriageway and the Abakaliki-Afikpo highway.
He said that federal roads in the state were 14, with a length of 532.5 kilometres, but regretted that the roads were in poor conditions.
He said that 329.5 kilometres of the length were on asphalt while 203 kilometres were earth roads.
“A total length of 100 km of the roads is on crushed rock and stone-base and the remaining 432.5 km are on earth surface,” the director said.
Oyekanmi said that contract for the rehabilitation of two major roads in the state had just been awarded by the Federal Government.
“The roads are the 14-km Nnewe-Uduma-Uburu road, Section I (26.27km) and Section II with a spur to Ishiagu-Mile 2 road between Ebonyi and Enugu states and the construction of Oso-Ohafia road in Ebonyi,” he said.
He said that most federal roads in the state were dilapidated and needed rehabilitation or reconstruction.