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Following petitions and longstanding representations
made by well meaning
Ogbaruans, including, notably Chief
C. Obi Olisa, Representative Okwudili
Uzoka (PDP-Ogbaru), Prof. Ben Nwabueze and Prof. Ben Akpati
to the Anambra
State Government and the Federal Government respectively,and
more recently
to Chief Anthony Anenih, the Federal Minister for Works and
Housing, it was
disclosed last month that the Federal Government has decided
to upgrade the
Ogabru road from the Onitsha through Odekpe to Ndoni in the
Rivers State to
a "Trunk A" road. It is
further understood that the Minister
Anenih has
signed the relevant paper effecting
the change. What is now left are the
modalities and an assessment of what it would take to
reconstruct the road
as well as awarding the contract for it. A Ministry of Works
Survey team is
to undertake a tour of the
road within the next few weeks.
Howevr, the
timing for the award of contract and completion
of the road upgrade is
still
indefinite.
By assuming responsibility of the Ogbaru
road, the Federal
Government has
added another axis to the three
existing federal road network
connecting
south-south area to oil rich Delta region to
the southeast and up country.
These include the Patani-Port-Harcourt road, Owerri-Aba-
Port-Harcourt road
and the new Abuja-Port-Harcourt road presently under
construction.
Anambra State Governor, Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju who was
evidently very
delighted by this recent development visited
Ogbaru on 15 April 2000 to
assess, among other things the present condition of this very
important road,
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