APC Defends Purchase Of Road Analyser

The All Progressives
Congress (APC) in Rivers State has challenged the State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to prove its allegation that the  the APC Government in the State inflated the cost of the Automated Road Analyser(ARAN) commissioned on July 18 by Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.
The APC, in a statement issued by the State Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, expressed  disappointment that rather than appreciating the purchase of the scientific device to be used in monitoring road quality and ensure that dubious contractors do not rip off the State, PDP leaders were making frivolous allegations.
Dr Ikanya said that  by opposing the purchase of the road analyser, PDP has left no one in doubt that it is a party of blind critics and enemies of progress.
According to him,  ”Contrary to PDP’s claims, the purchase of the road analyser by the Rivers State Government was done in a transparent manner and followed due process. Each of the two machines costs N109 million, making a total of N218 million for the two machines”.
The statement signed by the Media Assistant to the Chairman, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, said the figure was not inflated in any way and challenged PDP leaders to provide proof that the cost of the machines was inflated,  ”as it is not enough to make wild allegations in a failed bid to tarnish the image of a transparent administration.
APC insisted that “Governor Amaechi, instead of being criticised, should be commended and congratulated for ensuing that our funds are judiciously utilised and that contractors do not defraud the State by means of poor quality road projects’’.
The party however, advised the state PDP Chairman, Felix Obuah and his spokesman, Jerry Nedam, to stop ridiculing themselves through frivolous allegations that cast them in the mould of blind critics and present PDP as a party of jokers and unserious minds.