The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has appealed to host communities at the Eleme and Onne axis of the East-West Road to
Akpabio, who made the call during a meeting with stakeholders and management of Reynold Construction Company in his office, noted that the government has not abandoned the road as being insinuated in some quarters.
He explained that the ministry has been working with the construction company in charge of the road project and that the company has given assurance that the 338km East-West road which has been under construction since 2006 would be fixed and delivered by 2022.A statement signed by the director of press and public relations in the ministry, Deworitshe Patricia, also quoted the minister as saying that the federal government has released the sum of N2.
He said that due to the volume of traffic on the road, it has become imperative that the road be expanded to six lanes and additional flyovers would be accommodated in the construction work, which he said were not captured in the initial contract and design. “The road, particularly the Eleme Junction and the Onne Port junction area is in a deplorable state. The road when it was first awarded in 2006, was still in very good shape and was therefore excluded from the original contract. However, 15 years after that section has gone bad.
“We have had some apotheosis that have come up within the road corridor, which was not in the original plan.
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