OGBIA (BAYELSA) – The Bayelsa government said on Friday that the ongoing multi-billion Cargo
[pro_ad_display_adzone id=”8″]International Airport in the state would be completed and ready for use by the end of 2015.
Mr Lawrence Ewrudjiakpor, the Commissioner for Works and Infrastructural Development, disclosed this to newsmen in Ogbia Local Government Area during an inspection of some ongoing projects in the state.
Ewrudjiakpor said that an airport was necessary to attract more investments for industrialisation, [pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″]tourism and even revenue generation in the state.
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“You can see that we’ve gone round today, all the project sites we visited, the contractors are working in a full tootle. Now, at the airport site, the contractor is pushing very well with the vertical drain and the good news we have is that sedimentations have taken place very much, settlement of the sand is moving faster than we expected.
“So, hopefully by the end of February, we should start the civil works from what the Project Manager has told us and we are very happy with that development because we want that project.
“I have promised Bayelsans by the end of this year, we should be able to land the first plane there. For the governor’s house, we are almost about 60 to 65 per cent completed.
“Now, at the tower hotel, they’re casting the roofing now, and we are sure in the next two weeks, they will complete the casting of the roofing. These are very key projects; the airport, the tower hotel.
“These are the key projects that we want to complete, especially the tower hotel, have become a kind of monument that a lot of people feel that it shouldn’t stand the way it stand.”
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The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that other project sites inspected were the Igbogene road and bridge construction, Otuoke Internal road, among others.
The commissioner said the importance of development of infrastructure to the economy could not be over-emphasised, and urged the people to support the restoration agenda of the state government.
Ewrudjiakpor said that the state government was ready to ensure that the state keyed into the global economic development and to make it one of the economic hubs of the nation. (NAN)