After music blared for several hours from giant black speakers, it faded, and eventually died down. Officials that erected the rostrum and canopies earlier in the day disassembled, and carted them away alongside the white plastic chairs, which no guests sat on. Nonetheless, residents and road users continued to ply the road till today.
Beyond being cheap, roads are of great importance to the socio-economic development of the society, as a well-developed network of roads constitutes an integral part of infrastructure in any given society, including ours where infrastructure deficit is mindboggling. The Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Mr. Clem Agba, who disclosed the government’s plan to revamp the rural roads when he paid a courtesy visit to the Agadagba of Olodiama, Godwin Ogunyibo, after the inspection of the ongoing 9km Igo – Ikpella rural road project in Ovia North Local Council of Edo State, announced that President Muhammadu Buhari had released the money for the project, adding that the 266 communities in the six geo-political zones would benefit from the project.
Osinbajo while featuring at a webinar organised by the Bureau of Public Enterprises , explained that adopting new models of investments for infrastructural development in the country was imperative, as reliance on public expenditure alone was no longer sufficient to meet multiplying needs. Not long ago, one of such allegations strained the relationship between the executive and the legislature in Akwa Ibom State, when the Chairman of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly Committee on Judiciary, Justice, Public Petitions, and Human Rights, Victor Ekwere, alleged that 97 per cent of roads constructed by the Governor Udom Emmanuel-led administration in nine local councils have failed.
The observations by the lawmakers, which somehow snowballed into a full-blown spat between the legislature and the executive started during a budget defence session, where the two lawmakers pointedly accused the state government of engaging inexperienced contactors to build roads. In the South East, the situation is not different as exemplified by what is happening on Ugwuonyeama– Ninth Mile; Ninth Mile–Enugu–Onitsha Expressway; Oji–Achi-Mmaku Road in Enugu State; Enugu–Port Harcourt Expressway; Okigwe-Owerri Road and Ninth Mile–Makurdi Highway.
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