Worried by the slow
pace adopted by the contractor handling the electrification project in their community, the people of Mba in Etche Local Government Area have appealed to the Rivers State governor, Rt Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, to prevail on the contractor to conclude the project.
Chairman Mba Agwuru Ishi Electrification Committee, Mr Simon Nwuzi, made the appeal in an interview with our correspondent, Thursday at Okudu, the traditional headquarters of Mba town.
Nwuzi said the electrification project was first awarded during the then administration of late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, but was abandoned after mounting of poles and commended the present state administration led by Governor Amaechi who he said, executed road projects round the town as well as awarded electrification project in the area.
The electrification committee chairman however regretted that the new contractor mounted poles and also laid wires in some parts of the town, and went out ofsight for a long time.
“This attitude of the contractor has rekindled the fear that the project stands the risk of being abandoned, hence we want the governor to come to our aid”, he said.
Describing the project as a laudable initiative that would accelerate socio-economic development of the agriculture community, he noted that when completed it would stimulate small-scale industries and, by extension, check youth unemployment and its associated manifestations.
He said efforts made by his committee to get the contractor conclude the job had not yielded any result as, according to him, there was an obvious attempt to politicise the project which would not be in the interest of the people.

Chris Oluoh