Gov Emmanuel to Complete Road Projects in Oruk Anam LGA in 2022

Okon Bassey in Uyo

The Akwa Ibom State Government has assured the people of Oruk Anam Local Government Area of the state that all ongoing road construction projects in the area would be completed before the end of 2022.

Emmanuel gave the assurance at the funeral service of a member of the state’s Technical Committee on Implementation of the Ibom Deep Seaport, Late Mr. Idongesit Udoffa, which was held during the weekend at QIC Central Primary School, Ibesit Anwa Udo.

He said that the ongoing Ikot Ekaide – Ikot Okoro-Ikot Ibritam and other road projects in Oruk Anam, were among the longest road projects being executed by the state government.

The governor explained that that was why four major road contractors have been engaged to get the job done before the end of 2022.

“I want to reassure Oruk Anam people that we have four major contractors working here and before the end of next year, we’ll complete all the roads. Let us just pray for good weather and we’ll get that done.

“This year records the highest rainfall we’ve had in the past six years and if you want to do a good job, you can’t do earthworks on a road when it is raining. You must allow the rains to subside,” he explained.

He cautioned against unverified and misleading utterances on the current state of the roads under construction and sued for discretion among religious leaders in matters of governance.

“Let’s face fact and let’s do what we’re supposed to do. Let people handling church leave governance for people in government.

“The public should be told the truth. We must put it straight, that the pulpit should not be used as a platform to mislead people with unverified information,” the governor said.

Emmanuel said that his administration has put in adequate resources to ensure timely completion of development projects in the area and called for understanding and cooperation among locals.

“As a government, we’ve done everything possible. Oruk Anam today has the longest roads in terms of kilometres.

“We have four contractors working now in Oruk Anam, but in 2018 while the contractors were very serious with the work, Oruk Anam, my in-laws, were the first local government area to kidnap construction workers and even killed a soldier and that work was stalled for almost one year.

“We had to go look for new companies to take up the jobs and the whole documentation process for contract to be reawarded.” he stated.