The member of the Akwa Ibom Surrounding Space of Meeting representing Ibiono Ibom Surrounding constituency, Moses Essien has appealed to the government to extend investment for the Calabar-Itu-road venture and safeguard it’s well timed final touch to amusement the agony being suffered by way of motorists.
The development and dualisation of the venture, which is being treated by way of 3 building companies, has dragged for greater than 5 years now, with out considerable luck due in large part to rarity of sufficient investment.
Some parts of the street have transform so deplorable that commuters and motorists spend days in a walk this is intended to whisk not up to two hours.
Talking on Saturday when he visited a failed portion of the street at Ikot Ebom in Ibiono Ibom LGA, the place commuters and motorists had been stranded for days, the lawmaker instructed the government to expedite the development of the long-abandoned federal freeway.
Essien who’s Space Committee chairman on fitness emphasised the pressing want for the government to serve sufficient investment for the venture, highlighting the street’s strategic worth in facilitating monetary expansion, selling solidarity, and making sure the protection of commuters and motorists between the 2 states and alternative portions of the rustic.
“Because the member representing the crowd of Ibiono Ibom Surrounding constituency and as one that has been the use of this avenue, I needed to come right here to peer issues for myself.
“From what I’ve noticeable and as you’ll see, the street has transform impassable, and the crowd of my constituency and alternative customers are struggling.
“I want to seize this opportunity to call on the federal government and president Bola Tinubu to urgently intervene, and ensure adequate and proper funding for the construction of this important road which links the South-South region and the South-East region and other parts of the country” Essien mentioned.
He lamented that his constituents and alternative avenue customers had been subjected to struggling and agony because of the deplorable status of the street.
“You can only imagine what the people are suffering on this road, sleeping days on the road without getting to their destinations,” he lamented, including ” crowd can not get right of entry to Move River Surrounding from right here, neither can they get right of entry to Akwa Ibom Surrounding, and you recognize the worth of this avenue to this patch and the rustic as an entire”.