Abia State Governor Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has called for the urgent intervention of the Federal Government in revamping federal roads cutting across the State into other States.
In a series of Twits on his verified Twitter handle, Ikpeazu noted that Abia, as a State bordered by seven other States is replete with a number of federal roads cutting across the State into other States, regretting, however, that almost all of such roads are in a state of total disrepair, causing untold hardship to road users from across the country.
The Governor while listening the roads with urgent need for intervention to include: Aba-PH segment of Enugu-PH Highway, Aba-Ikot Ekpene and Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene Roads linking Abia to Akwa Ibom and Cross River States and Umuahia-Ohafia-Arochukwu Rd among others, insisted that “Given that our people have trade & commerce as their main source of livelihood, landlocking Abia will amount to asphyxiation of our citizens.”
He added further that: “Save for the alternative new road we did between Akwa Ibom and Aba through Ekwereazu, the plight of our traders would have been unimaginable!”
Ikpeazu therefore appealed to the Federal Government for immediate intervention on these roads including Osisioma Owerrinta through the NNPC Depot in Osisioma where,b according to him, “we have been stopped from continuing our work by @FMWHNIG through a letter we received just yesterday.”
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