Delta begins construction of access road to Asaba waterfront city

In a bid to clean up Asaba, the Delta State Capital City, the state government on Wednesday reaffirmed its commitment to constructing a six-lane access road to the proposed Asaba Waterfront City.

The state governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, disclosed this during the inspection of the project.

He said the project was conceived by the previous administration through a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model.

The government’s role is to construct the six-lane access road to the new city, while the developers are expected to reclaim the land and develop the city.

According to the governor, Asaba is becoming very attractive to property developers who are coming from Lagos to Asaba because Asaba today is housing most of those people from the Southeast.

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He said, “They are coming here because they find Asaba very comfortable and they know that we are also hospitable. Being a PPP arrangement between the government and the developers, our obligation is to reclaim the place to give them an access route, a six-lane access road, to this place.”

Oborevwori hinted that the developers have done about 20 per cent of the job, but their challenge is the buildings on the right of way. Of course, money has been released to compensate the property owners and the contractor for the project.

At the 4.5km Oko-Amakom to Oko-Obiakpu main alignment road, the governor said, “This road is very important to the people of Oko; it is one meter above the 2012 flood level, and the people sought refuge on the road during the last flood.

“The contractor has assured us that the project will be completed in June/July this year, but what we are spending on this road is much more than what we would have spent in constructing a 10km road elsewhere because of the terrain.”

On the Marine Road off Cable Point Road Asaba, Governor Oborevwori said the road was very important to the people of Asaba because goods come here from across the River Niger.