Federal Government says it has commenced remedial work on some dilapidated federal roads across the country, to ensure safety of commuters during Yuletide.
Controller, Federal Ministry of Works in charge of Enugu State, Olufemi Oyekanmi, disclosed this, while inspecting ongoing works on some of the affected roads in the state.
He said some of the road projects are, rehabilitation of the 15km Ninth Mile section of the Onitsha-Enugu Expressway, bypass at Ninth Mile and rehabilitation of the 90km old Enugu-Onitsha Road (Opi Junction-Ukehe-Okpatu-Udi-Oji River to Anambra State).
Oyekanmi said pointed out that that the rehabilitation was a deliberate effort to ensure that major roads across the country, irrespective of their contractual status, were good enough during the festive season, aimed at ensuring that Nigerians have a blissful Christmas celebration.
He expressed delight that the Federal Government was at the verge of completing rehabilitation work on the Enugu section of the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway, adding that he was particularly delighted at the award of the contract for rehabilitation of the Ninth Mile section of the road at the cost of 2.64 billion naira.
The Controller, Federal Ministry of Works hinted that the contract would ensure complete recovery of the deplorable Ugwu Onyeama section of the road up to 82 Division, Abakpa Nike Enugu, which had claimed many lives and property.
Oyekanmi said the ministry’s target was to ensure that at least one lane of the dual carriage way was completely rehabilitated from Ninth Mile to 82 Division before Christmas.
He said that the move would reduce the difficulties encountered by the road users and appealed to commuters to be patient, as the road would be put to good use.
In his remarks, the Project Manager, Reynolds Construction Company (RCC), Harel Vaknin, said the company would do its best to deliver the job on schedule.
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