‘RSG Completes 15 Dual Carriage Roads’

The Rivers State Govern
ment says it has completed 15 out of the 24 dual carriage roads while a total of 25 bridges have been completed out of the 37 it embarked upon since the inception of the present administration.
This was contained in the November – December 2014 edition of the Rivers State Civil Service Publication titled “The Rivers Bureaucrat” on Roads, Bridges led by the permanent secretary, Paulinus Nwankwoala and made available to The Tide correspondent  in Port Harcourt, recently.
The publication also stated that out of the five flyovers that the government embarked on since its inception, three had been completed while two are on-going.
It also indicated that the government had completed 112 other roads out of the 232 roads it projected as well as completed the two inter change roads it embarked upon within the period under review.
According to the publication, some landmark achievements of the present administration include, the dualisation of the formerly congested and narrow roads such as Rumuokwuta- Choba-East-West Road, the 9.80km Amadi-Slaughter-Woji-Elelenwo-East West Road, Ada George Phase 1, which spans between Mile 3, Diobu and NTA Road, and Airport Road, Omagwa, with a length of 18.60km.
Others are Rumuola-Rumokwuta Road of 2km, Old Aba Road which starts from First Bank,Rumuomasi to Rumuigbo of 7.4km, the 3.2km Slaughter –Oginigba-Rumuobiakani Road, and the 6km Abuloma-Woji-Akpajo Road, which also has bridges and a mini inter change at Abuloma-Woji axis and a toll gate at Abuloma end.
The bulletin also has it that the dualised roads were Elekahia-Rumuomasi Road of 3.62km, the Azikiwe Road UTC Junction – Lagos Bus Stop, the 3.1km Ikwerre Road Education Bus-Stop to Agip flyover, the Ken Saro-Wiwa Stadium Road on which flood control works were done, the Worlu Street, Olu Obasanjo road, Chief G.U. Ake (Eliozu) Road and the 19km reconstruction and modernization of D/Line roads.
It stated that the government also embarked on some rural roads which include, Isiokpo-Ubima –Omerelu Road in Ikwerre Local Government Area, the 2.75km Kabangha –Lueke Road in Khana  LGA, the Okrika ring road with three bridges, the Unity Road: Ogoni-Andoni-Opobo Road of 43Km with ten bridges, the 13.8km Okehi II – Ndashi Road in Etche LGA and the Okehi-Ihie-Apani-Omerelu Road in Etche and Ikwerre LGAs of 42.8km.
Others are the 21.6km Omotor Agba Ndele Road in Emohua, the ongoing Trans-Kalabari Highway and bridges of 7.3km as well as the 12.45km Omoku internal roads in Ogba/Egbema /Ndoni Local Government Area.
It gave kudos to the Ministry of Works and the Commissioner, Hon Victor Giadom, for achieving its target as promised by the present administration.

Collins Barasimeye