Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has challenged the National Assembly to ensure that the bad sections of the East-West Road in the state are fixed.
Fubara gave the charge on August 9, when the Senate ad hoc committee on the non-completion of the East-West Road and the Eleme-Ogoni corridor, set up in July, visited him at the Government House in Port Harcourt.
The committee members were in Port Harcourt to inspect the Federal road, following a motion by Senator Barinada Mpigi from Rivers East Senatorial District and others on the state of the East-West Road in the Niger Delta, with a special focus on the Eleme-Ogoni axis in the State.
The Governor stated that the visit by the committee showed the seriousness of the 10th Senate towards the completion of the federal road project, but asked that the exercise should not end with a public hearing.
Governor Fubara frowned at the long neglect of the Eleme-Ogoni axis of the road, despite access to the critical economic infrastructure of the Federal Government.
He said so far, 10 local government areas were directly affected by the bad state of that stretch of the road.
The Chairman of the ad hoc committee, Senator Abdul Ningi, told the Rivers governor that the Senate was mindful of the huge contribution of the Niger Delta to the national economy.
