Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has promised the delivery of Port Harcourt ring road on schedule. The governor committed when he visited the site of the project, yesterday, to assess the extent of work done.

The governor drove from the Obiri-Ikwerre-Airport Road end, through the Jesuit Memorial School to Elikpokwuodu community, down to Rumuosi and Ozuoba communities before terminating the inspection tour at UTC Junction.
 
A statement by the Chief Press Secretary, Nelson Chukwudi, noted that the inspection took the governor through three council areas of the state: Ikwerre, Obio/Akpor and Port Harcourt City.
 
Speaking with newsmen at the end of the inspection, Fubara explained that the contract for the Port Harcourt Ring Road was the first he signed.
He said so much money had been expended on the project, to make sure that it was delivered to Rivers people.
 
“I think that we are good, considering the understanding that we had with Julius Berger Nigeria PLC.
 
“We signed off that in 36 months, this project will be done and delivered, and with what we are seeing, we are meeting up that target.
 
“I think we have a few issues; the price rate of things at that time we signed the contract and what subsists presently is no longer the same.”
 
In his remarks, the Managing Director, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, Dr Lars Richter, who conducted the governor round the project site, said work had advanced after piling and laying of beams on the first flyover, which started on January 15.