RSG Spends N28bn on Unity Road

L-R: Officer in-charge of NNPC Police out-station, ASP Akilu Ghali, Executive Director, Services, Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC), Alhaji Idi Mukhtar and Manager, Public Affairs (KRPC), Alhaji Abdullahi Idris, at the Physical and Cyber Security Awareness Campaign for NNPC staff and family members in Kaduna, recently.

The Rivers State Government has so far spent the sum of N28 billion on the Ogoni-Andoni-Opobo Unity Road.
The State Commissioner for Works, Hon. Victor Giadom, disclosed to The Tide in Port Harcourt, recently.
Giadon said these are Federal Government roads, but because the Governor of the State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi is desirous to make all Communities accessible by motorable roads thereby single-handedly embarked on the project.
He also disclosed that the Ministry has resolved to ensure 95 per cent completion of all the on-going road projects in the state, pointing out that 146 projects out of the 154 will be completed on or before May 2015.
According to him, the projects are expected to cost a shopping sum of N120 billion by May 2015.
Government had also awarded 275 smaller roads of which the non-dual carriage ones in most rural communities have been completed.
The Commissioner also hinted that the Oginigba-Rumuobiakani Road, Rumuomasi-Aritillery Road, Gen. Andrew Azazi  (Nkpogu) Road, Amadi-Ama-Peter Odili Road, Ikwerre Road, Azikiwe, now called Chief Lulu-Briggs Road, Ada George Road, Ozuzu road, Ndashi roads, Ubima roads, Omuanwa roads and others in the 23 Local Government Areas are among the completed road projects by the state government.
Giadom noted that from 2007 to date, a total of 154 roads, bridges, reclamation and shore protection projects have been awarded to various contractors, adding that the projects are at various stages of completion.
According to him, almost all the roads handled by the Amaechi-led administration are dualised, with streetlight, pedestrian walk-ways and modern drainages to contain the influx of people to the state, and Port Harcourt in particular, saying that it had enabled movement of economic products in the state as well as minimized traffic congestion.