Dr. Alex Otti, the governor of Abia State, claims that his administration is eager to make progress and make up ground that has been lost.
Otti stated that his administration could not afford to squander time, which led to the selection of three contractors to work on the project concurrently: Craneburg, Ferotex, and CCECC at the opening of the 67-kilometer Umuahia-Uzuakoli-Akara-Ohafia Road rehabilitation on Wednesday.
The governor expressed his wish for the project to be finished as soon as possible and for it to be delivered to specifications in a record amount of time. He also mentioned his desire for the state’s residents to be able to travel on motorised highways and conveniently evacuate their farm produce.
According to the governor:
“We want our people to move on motorable roads. We want people who are doing business in all the nooks and crannies of Abia to be able to evacuate their products and come to the townships to sell them.
“We want all our leaders to feel free, those who live in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Aba and all parts of the state to feel free to come back to their villages spend time, spend money and stimulate the economy in the villages so that our people will also have a good life. That is how the economy moves.”
Otti stated that the goal of starting the road project is to open up the communities so that the people can start enjoying a good life and urged wealthy residents of the state who live outside the state to start visiting their communities more frequently as a way to boost the local economy.
He said:
“How can you be first when your roads from every nook and cranny are in serious dilapidation? How can you be first if your hospitals are now where people go to and don’t come out alive?
“How can you be first if your schools are in a serious state of disrepair? How can you be first if your people cannot sleep with their two eyes closed? How can you be first if the environment is littered with garbage?”
“Any time you breathe, you breathe in foul air. So, these are the things we decided to deal with as quickly as we took over office and we are very intentional about that.”
cc: Punch Ng
