Wike Charges Contractors To Make Good Use Of Dry Season

Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has told civil construction companies handling various projects for the state government to maximise the opportunity the dry season offers to achieve commendable milestones.
Wike gave the charge while flagging off the construction of Abua-Emoh-Iyak-Ighom-Elok and Emoh-Egbolomaccess roads at Okpeden Town Junction in Abua/Odual Local Government Area,last Friday.
This was the second time within a week in this January of 2023 that Wikewas flagging off road projects in the area.
The first was the 9.2kilometre-long Ekagho-Ogboloma-Adada Link Road in the Odual axis.
This second one is 8.16kilometre-long Abua-Emoh-Iyak-Ighom-Elok and Emoh-Egbolomaccess roads in Okpeden axis.
Wike said the two projects were important not only to the Abua/Odual people, but also to the state government, and warned that his administration would not entertain any excuse of delay in completing the projects.
The governor stressed that luckily, the road projects were handled by the same contractor, Lubrik Construction Company.
He enthused that Lubrik had already been told to be more serious in giving maximum attention required to the two roads, to complete them on schedule.
Wike insisted that the two projects would be done unfailingly without excuses.
According to him, more money would be released to Lubrik Construction Company on Monday (today) to motivate them to speed up the work.
“I don’t want the contractor to say today is gone, no. You must use the hours you have and continue to work as we flag off the project. So, don’t say today is gone, there is nothing that is gone.
“Every time must be utilised because we are now in dry season. Rivers is a place you don’t know when the rains will start. So, now, we have sun, let us utilise it.”
Wike explained that just as his administration was stamping its feet to deliver the two road projects in the area, the Abua/Odual people should be politically vigilant.
Such vigilance, he pointed out, should guard their votes for all candidates of the PDP contesting for governorship, National Assembly and state House of Assembly in Rivers State.
“We also expect that you will also reciprocate what we are doing for you. We have built schools, which every other person may have done. But these roads are very important to us.
“And I believe that by the time you vote for us in the governorship, House of Assembly, Senate and House of Representatives elections, obviously, my successor have no choice but to link you up with bridges over rivers that separate some of your communities, so that all of you will be together.”
In his address, Rivers State Commissioner for Works, Dr.Dakorinima Alabo George-Kelly, said the 8.16kilometre-long Abua-Emoh-Iyak-Ighom-Elok and Emoh-Egbolomaccess roads havefourkilometres’ length of drains.
George-Kelly explained that the road projects, with completion period of five months,were expected to link up five communities, beginning from Okpeden Town in Abua/Odual Local Government Area.