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From Uchenna Inya, Abakaliki
Minister of Works, David Umahi has urged people of South East to embrace President Bola Tinubu with two hands.
Umahi said the President has done a lot of projects in the zone including roads to change the narrative in the area.
The minister stated this in Enugu, Enugu State when he inspected the N1.5 trillion ongoing 528km Night Mile /Benue/Nassarawa road.
Section 1,2 and 3 of the road are in Benue while section 4 and 5 are Enugu which is about 200km.
Umahi thanked President Tinubu for remembering South East in infrastructure engagement policy of his administration and urged the people to support his re-election to complete his good work in the zone and otter parts of the country.
He ordered the sacking of four out of the five supervisors handling the project for not being in site.
“The project is 264km by 2. So, you are getting about 528kms. We have 15km by 2, 30km in Nassarawa and that is Nassarawa by-pass and then we have a flyover in Makurdi, Benue State.
“And so, the entire section of 250 is divided into five and China Habo has sections 1,2,3,4,5.
“Sections 1,2 and 3 are in Benue State and sections 4 and 5 in Enugu State. We have seen the quality of work they are doing, very encouraging.
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“The speed of the work is also very encouraging. I was actually coming to quarrel but I found nothing to quarrel but to commend China Habo very highly because each time they brought their evaluation, I never believed it but today, I have seen and I have believed that they are working and they are working very well.
“We have every reason to thank Mr. President. 528km road of about 1$bn which is 1.5trn and that is what this project is and I want to beat my chest to say that we have a very bargain with China Habo. We are not losing and they are not losing and the quality of work is very good.
“So, we thank the President very highly and I want the South East people to embrace Mr. President with two hands.
“A lot of projects are going on in the South East. This section alone, if you multiply it by two, it is close to 200km. So, we have every cause to thank Mr President, we have every cause to support him. We have every cause to be wise
“We need to be wise, I have been telling our people to be wise. We cannot engage with sentiment, we have to engage base on realities and I think President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has remembered South East very well. We have no reason to complain. “I am your son, I am the Minister of Works and I am working and we give glory to God Almighty and thanks to our dear President. He will go for second tenure, don’t mind all these noise people are making.”
“He that has started this work, God has ordained him to finish it. So, we will not be afraid to tell all the noise makers to go and keep quite. They have been there, they didn’t do this road but today, God has brought a man who has remembered us. We have not been this remembered.
“And so, we have every cause to stand with Mr. President. We will change the narrative in South East, we will educate our people, we will take our people straight to the center which the President has started.
“By this infrastructure engagement, we are already at the center. We are no longer the last, God has remembered us through President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“So, I want to thank all the stakeholders that are involved in this construction. I am sacking four supervisors. Now, we have five sections and I saw only one on site.
“ So, the other four are out of this project because consultancy work is that where the contractor is working, you are there checking that work is going on”, he stated.
