Nigeria: Abia Awards N5.3 Billion Contract to Reconstruct Federal Roads in Aba
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Vanguard (Lagos)
10 October 2008
Posted to the web 10 October 2008
Anayo Okoli
Umuahia
Worried by the condition of federal roads in the state which it described as being in "total mess", Abia State Government said it has awarded contract worth N5.3 billion to reconstruct two major federal roads in Aba, the commercial capital.
The roads are the busy Aba-Owerri road and Port Harcourt road.Presently, the two roads are actually in a state of utter disrepair which has been a great source of worry to the residents and visitors to Aba as several man-hours are wasted on daily basis on these roads in heavy traffics caused by the bad condition of the road.
The two roads, presently single lane roads, are to be dualized, with street lights and bigger drainage system. The construction of the two roads will be stone-bases.
According to Abia state Commissioner for Works and Transport, Prince Paul Ikonne, who announced this in his office while speaking with journalists, Port Harcourt road was awarded at a cost of N2.8 billion, while Aba-Owerri road was awarded at the cost of N2.5 billion. The two roads, he explained must have bigger drainages with stone-base.
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"We have told the contractor what we want. The roads must have new and bigger drainages and the construction must be stone-bases", Ikonne warned.
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Bravo!! Good news. Well let's hope that the contract for the recontruction of the federal roads will be honoured to the letter. This announcement couldn't have come at a time when the city of Aba resembles a war zone. Aba people deserve to have good roads and other infrastructures. let us keep our fingers crossed.
Nhmm! Nhmm! When it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is a duck. This sounds like another gimmick to use a real defined problem to siphon and stash out the people's money.
The problem with this contract is that it lacks time of completion and therefore cannot be a legal contract. We have been told what the contract would accomplish but it did not specified in concrete terms when this project would be completed. This is another way of passing the buck to the next administration but would show on the list of accomplishments by the… [Read Full Text]
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It is a good thing that the Abia state gvt has undertaken to repair these federal roads and debit it to the federal gvt.The repairs are urgently needed. The federal gvt has unfortunately not been forthcoming in handling projects in the Eastern part of the country. But hearing about award and subsequent release of huge sums is one thing, actualy implementing the job is another. On the assumption of office by Theodore Orji after being single handely placed there by former chief crook orji Uzor Kalu, He (T.Orji) awarded the contract for street lights on major roads at aba (to… [Read Full Text]