Mbah commissions road projects, commences 80 more

To mark his first anniversary in office, the Governor of Enugu State, Dr Peter Mbah, on Wednesday, began the commissioning of 71 urban road projects, being the first phase of contracts awarded for the construction and reconstruction of roads in the state capital.

The governor also announced a second phase of the contract comprising 80 roads, adding that the government would, in addition to other major rural roads, also construct a minimum of 10km of road in each electoral ward to ensure that the rural areas are not left out.

He said that the government had a policy to ensure that all Trunk A and Trunk B roads in the urban and rural areas are paved. At Mount Street/Umuchu Road junction, Idaw River, the governor performed a symbolic commissioning of Idaw River, Uwani, and Coal Camp Zones, as the people of Idaw River celebrated the first road intervention projects in the area in the past 52 years.

The roads commissioned were Broderick Street, Silver Smith Street, Asata Mine Road, Ogbete – Jamboree – Ajogwu Road, all at Coal Camp, as well as Emeka Ebila, Idaw River Secondary School Road, Umuchu Street, Omachiani Street, Iloh Franco Street, St. Charles Street, Umu Ohachie Street and Ozoude Street, as well as Meniru Street and Mount Street Bypass, all in Idaw River.

Others were Bishop Anyogu Street, College Road, Edeozie Street, Kenyatta Street to Timber Road, under Uwani Zone and St. Peter’s Road, Odudukoko Street, the Garki flyover, as well as four flyover ramps at each of Garki and Amechi Awkunanaw flyover, all in Gariki Zone.