Delta constructed 798 roads, gov’s aide replies Omo-Agege

Communication Manager and aide to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, Mr. Jackson Ekwugum, yesterday, revealed that the state government spent over N600 billion on 798 road projects with a total length of 1,811.4km and 977.84km of drains construction in the past seven years.

Ekwugum said the roads, drains and other infrastructure projects were impacting positively on residents, contrary to claims by main opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC) that nothing was on ground to justify the allocation the state had received since 2015.

Governorship candidate of the APC and Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, had through his spokesman, Ima Niboro, claimed that Delta State received over N770 billion without visible developments.

But reacting to the allegation, Ekwugum said it was not only an unfounded and unguarded statement but pitiful, premature and shameful.

Ekwugum said Delta State, under Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, “has reached new heights of fiscal discipline, infrastructural development, and human capital development.”

He listed various road and drainage projects and other public infrastructure across the 25 local government areas of the state, which according to him, have enhanced socio-economic activities of the people.