End Nightmare On East-West Road Now, Fubara Tells Senate Committee …Pushes for Urgent Commencement of Work

Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has urged the Senate Adhoc Committee on East-West Road and Eleme-Ogoni Corridor to ensure actual commencement of reconstruction work on the East-West Road to end the intractable sufferings experienced by the people using the road.
Fubara gave the charge when members of the Senate Adhoc Committee, led by its Chairman, Senator Abdul Ningi Ahmed, paid him a courtesy visit at the Executive Chamber of Government House, Port Harcourt on Wednesday.
This was contained in a statement by the Special Assistant on Media to the governor, Boniface Onyedi.
The governor recalled years of deductions from FAAC account by the Federal Government to fund critical national projects and wondered why the East-West Road was never captured and funded especially when it leads to locations where essential national economic assets are operational.
He noted that the most deplorable sections are not even more than a length of 20 kilometer from the Eleme junction interchange bridge into Ogoniland on the East-West Road, which cannot be too expensive for the Federal Government to handle.
Fubara enjoined the committee not to end their activities with only field assessment of the state of the road, but to also push further to see to the reconstruction and completion of work on the road.
“We have always complained about the dilapidated state of the East-West Road, moreover, the Eleme junction to Onne route but nothing happened. It is a federal road, but it is my people that are suffering. So, I want to appeal to you, that it should not just be public hearing, or a question of how much was paid and not paid. You should move far from much talking to making actual commitment”, he said.
Chairman of the Senate Adhoc Committee on East-West Road and Eleme-Ogoni Corridor, Senator Abdul Ningi Ahmed, informed the governor that their visit was predicated on a motion adopted by the Senate concerning the East-West Road, saying they were in the State to physically assessing the current condition of the road.
The governor later took the Ad-hoc Committee on a visit to the failed portions of the Eleme section of the road.