Emmanuel Ugwu-Nwogo in Umuahia
Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has expressed his commitment to implement a holistic development agenda, saying the economic programme of his administration “is structured to achieve balanced development” of the state.
He stated this at the flag-off ceremony of the 11km Nunya-Eluama road in Isuikwuato Local Government, off Enugu Port Harcourt expressway.
The event, which attracted many stakeholders from Isuikwuato, including the former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt Gen Azubuike Ihejirika, underscored the importance of the abandoned road to the economic growth of the area.
Otti said his government was being “very strategic” in its approach to governance in order to carry every segment of the state along and achieve even development.
He noted that aside from the road reconstruction projects going on simultaneously in Umuahia and Aba, he had entered the rural communities to extend the infrastructure development to them.
The Abia governor explained the necessity for improving the rural infrastructure as location of some ventures were specially suited for the rural communities while some could only thrive in the urban centres.
“For us, every part of Abia is important in the new Abia,” he said, adding that with good infrastructure in the rural areas, farmers would have easy access to the cities to market their produce.
Otti assured the people of Isuikwuato that the Nunya-Eluama road connecting the communities to the rest of Isuikwuato and linking them to the Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway, would be reconstructed to the highest quality in the next 12 months or less.
In his remarks, Ihejirika expressed his excitement that the long abandoned road was going to be reconstructed to ease the the consuming rigours that people encounter on the road.
The Mayor of Isuikwuato LG, Air Vice Marshall Chinwendu Onyike (rtd) said the promises made by past administrations to rebuild the road were not kept but “the people’s governor (Otti) has now come to rehabilitate the road.”
