THE Delta State Government has approved contracts for the construction of flyovers at the popular Interbau Roundabout in Asaba and Effurun-Sapele Road Roundabout near the oil city of Warri, which will cost N3.5 billion and N4.18 billion respectively.
The State’s Commissioner for Information, Mr. Chike Ogeah, made this known while defending the decision by the state government to spend whopping N261 million to furnish the Executive Council Chambers at the new Government House complex.
Ogeah who spoke in company of the Commissioner for Works, Mr. Funkekeme Solomon said that the amount which was approved by the state executive council at its last meeting on Wednesday was reasonable considering the fact that the state does not have a befitting exco chambers where members of the state executive chambers hold meetings.
He promised that when fully furnished, it will be a state of the art chambers with computers and other accessories which can rival the best in the country.
The Commissioner said: “It will be a state of the art Executive Chambers. At N261 million, I don’t think it is too expensive. There will be computers and other accessories.”
The Works Commissioner added that the government decided to embark on the construction of the flyovers because of its quest to modernize Asaba, the state capital and Warri, the commercial capital and again to eradicate the traffic gridlocks, which normally occur at the two spots in the towns.
On other road projects, he said that the government was determined to complete them in order to put good infrastructure in place for potential investors and be able to realize the dream of a “Delta State Without Oil”.
Ogeah maintained that is very important for the present administration to have an even development strategy in line with its three cardinal programmes of infrastructure and human capital development, and peace and security, assuring that the projects will be completed within the lifespan of the Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s administration which ends on May 29 2015.
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