Opinion: Ugwuanyi: Tapping Army’s Engineering Skills for Infrastructure Upgrade, By Laurence Ani
Nearly every adult would know that it is the responsibility of the military to defend their country against external aggression.
This comment by Gov. Ugwuanyi underlines that philosophy. “My administration made a deliberate choice of awarding this project to 82 Division Army Engineers, owing to their rich history of competence in delivery of resilient Bailey bridges. The event of today evidently justifies this procurement decision,” he said, earlier this July, while inaugurating a bridge built by army engineers across the Inyaba River, in Enugu South Local Government Area.
But the real import of the day’s event lay beyond its civil-military symbolism. It was, more or less, a culmination of the military’s aspiration to bid for rehabilitation of public infrastructure. In October 2003, for instance, the then commandant of the Nigerian Army Engineers Corps, Brig-Gen. E. O. Itodo, presented a proposal to ex-minister of works, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe, expressing the army’s interest in the maintenance and construction of the country’s federal roads.
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