By Abujah Racheal
Abuja – The Chairman, Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba has commended the Federal government’s determination to improve the living conditions of the Niger Delta people.
Ndoma-Egba said this in a statement issued by Mrs Clara Braide, Special Assistant, Communication Office of the Board of the NDDC, on Friday in Abuja
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the Ministers of Power Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, had on Wednesday announced that N54.17 billion has been approved for Calabar-Itu-Ikot Ekpene route linking Akwa Ibom and Cross River States.
The Calabar-Itu road, one of two roads, which link the states, has been in a deplorable state for almost thirty years.
The other road, the Calabar-Ikom-Obudu-Ogoja Highway still remains in poor condition.
The Calabar-Itu road, which appears to be most strategic and economically viable of these two as it the shortest route to other South-South and South-East states, was worse off.
Ndoma-Egba was reacting to the recent approval of the reconstruction by the Federal Executive Council, stressing that when completed it would greatly improve the living conditions in the region.
According to him, it will alleviate the suffering and it will greatly enhance the ease of doing business for the people of the region.
“The approval of the reconstruction work on the Calabar – Itu – Ikot Ekpene Highway by the government is highly commendable as fixing this very basic infrastructure will improve significantly, the living conditions of our people,” he said.
The chairman also stressed that cynics have once again been proved wrong in the assertion that the President Muhammdu Buhari led administration is one-sided as the government is progressively making good on its campaign promises.