![]() ![]() Umahi noted that the Owerri to Okigwe road happens to be one of the best roads in all the roads he has visited as a Minister. The Minister while in Imo to inspect ongoing Federal Government projects said he was marvelled at the quality of roads, most of them federal government roads, which Uzodinma had initiated and completed in Imo State within a short period of time. Otti thanked the Minister for visiting Abia and expressed his government’s readiness to partner with the Federal Government to fix the Federal Roads in the State. The minister solicited the support of Abia State Governor, Alex Otti to sort out the issues affecting the building of a trailer park at Arungwa Aba, saying that the State government should acquire the place and partner the Federal Government to develop it with the private sector. Umahi, while listing some of the progress made on federal government roads in the state said Section One of the Port Harcourt-Enugu Express Road, which runs from Lokpanta to Abia Tower in Umuahia, which is hundred percent completed with a Trailer Park Section Two of the road runs from Umuahia Tower to Aba Rehabilitation of Umuahia-Ikwuano to Ikot Ekpene-Umudike Road with a length of 49.2 kilometers Section of Nkporo-Abiriba-Ohafia Road, awarded in 2012, that has been abandoned Bende-Arochukwu-Ohafia section one, awarded in 2018 Aba-Owerri Road, awarded in 2020 and others. This is even as he expressed delight in the job being done by some of the contractors that he met on site on the 12 federal government project sites in Abia State. On some of the road projects that were abandoned by various contractors, the Works Minister disclosed that he would be meeting with the ministry’s legal department to decide on what their next line of action would be.
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