John Okiyi Kalu: The untold story of ongoing Faulks Road, Aba, Project (2)
1. 4.8km length dualized road from Brass junction to Express junction making up a total of 9.6km road of 8m width on each side.
In addition to the above, there were construction activities designed around Ifeobara basin area, the area principally responsible for the perennial flooding of Ukwu Mango area of Ariaria market, close to A-line. This aspect of the work is principally meant to control flooding around that area. Government, this project is ongoing as not all the components have been fully executed. But with more than 70% of the 9.6km road aspect executed, the initial
After the visit of the President, the Governor considered closing portions of the road to enable Setraco execute the laying of the wearing course of the road but decided that doing so would hurt the business of the traders who were gearing up for the business of the Yuletide season. He directed Setraco to return to site late in December 2019 when the traders must have traveled for the season with the market shut down to continue the work.
Obviously, when people who know next to nothing about the scope of a project publicly make caricature of themselves by making statements like “why should a 4.6km road cost XYZ amount when it costs ABC amount in neighboring states”, you can’t help but pity them. If you give your spouse N2,000 to cook a pot of okro soup and I give mine N10,000 to prepare same pot of soup with stock fish, periwinkle, fresh fish etc, it is obvious that more ingredients must be involved in my pot of soup than yours.
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