Agwu Chijioke, Abakaliki
The governor of the state of Ebonyi, David Umahi, has trusted the other people in the state that his administration will ensure the final touch of all ongoing projects in the state before leaving the workplace in 2023.
Umahi spoke to reporters about a statewide allocation inspection, which was his first official service after his recovery from the COVID-19 infection.
You at Akaeze at Ivo LGA, what can you tell us about your project there?
The project was for a bridge connecting Akaeze with the state of Abia. Your call is Atani Bridge. However, I was very angry that the bridge was not rebuilt against my directive. I visited the bridge when I visited the Esu Bridge in Uburu, which we almost finished, and this is a six-stage bridge, while the Atani Bridge is a two-stage bridge. The former interim president told me that he was going to build the bridge and that he had been given a budget. I was disappointed when I visited the bridge and saw that nothing was being done. This has been done within 3 months, but the President of the Council who should do so did not. I’ve asked to investigate the budget allocated to that.
Every month they get their allowances and after paying the salaries and pensions, the available budget, I would like to see how they should spend them; The president once told me he was going to use the remaining money for the bridge and I told him to pass. And of course, if I see what needs to be done with the budget and it’s okay, I’ll say go ahead and do it because local government progress is my duty and therefore I make sure they don’t divert the budget.
To the new interim president, I told him to drain 1 km of the way to the bridge, and then to the market, we must reconsider the well-known Akaeze market. We need to see the beautification of the park. In addition, I need conciliation committee chairs to plant trees on all roads in their area; federal roads, national roads, local government roads. I need them to plant trees along the roads five meters away. Starting tomorrow, they start planting trees. The smart thing about this is that when you give up your homework, the trees will be in status and if you pass, you’ll say that I did this and that it’s the joy of living.
In Edda, in the area of government of southern Afikpo, the long road connecting the network from Amasiri has almost ended, what motivated his resolve to build this path?
We have very complicated terrain here. Fortunately, I was the contractor who controlled road assignment when I was still a businessman. The terrain of this road was terrible. About 4 expatriate merchants were assigned Owutu’s task in Nguzu, it’s about 14.5 km, but they couldn’t do it until Dr. Sam Egwu, the first civilian governor of the state, took us there and we started running there. Elechi came here as governor and inherited it and we finished him under Elechi. Under Sam Egwu, the valley where I plan to build the flyover now is the one we had to follow, but Elechi came here and felt we stick to each other.
We have a bridge of diversity of 20 meters with an intensity of about 25 m. First of all, we have a lot of injuries on this route and I’m very concerned. Because of my fondness for other people and my fondness for quality structure, even when I was still a businessman, the paintings we have made without a stone base since 2004 are still standing; Very horrible terrain and still standing, without stone base, is paved two inches.
We glorified God because he gave me the opportunity to work the way again now, and this can last 70 years and that’s why we use concrete to follow Him. Not only do we start in Owutu, but we also have to assign back about 10 km from the Amasiri junction. So far, we have made a total of 20 km of concrete from the junction of Amasiri to where we stopped.
You spoke angrily with the Works Commissioner in Edda Hill, what happened?
I was a little angry because I ordered the Commissioner of Works and the local government’s Pare livingnt to prevent somewhere so that I can see the option of taking an overpass to destroy this hill and then saving people’s lives through an elevated bridge. . I was so angry that the three hundred meters of concrete is about 30 million naira that you probably wouldn’t pay. The local government parent, contractor and paint commissioner will meet and take over because I have been very transparent about what you want to do there; I was there with the Works Commissioner and we agreed on what to do. It wasn’t the first time we agreed on that. I hope the Works Commissioner will refer to the engineers who live in this place. And the commissioner will have to start to obey the instructions urgently. Take the contractor back to the site to cut the 4-inch concrete and put bitumen on it. That’s my statewide directive, but it’s not enforced.
The measurement and collection are already made and will charge around 3 billion naira. They are 1.2 km of overflight bridge; not only 1.2 km, the height is about 25 m. We are animated in the Lord, so that’s what we think we’ll do. The local government here has a duty to build two wells and make the earth movements, while we have a duty to build the overpass and we start in August. For me, anything is imaginable with God. The life of an Edda boy is more than N3bn, but I will still take the task with less N3bn and with the same quality as we have in Abakaliki. This is what we will do because my purpose is to leave a legacy of quality assignments in the state of Ebonyi.
This Edda Hill overpass is an intensive capital allocation and the state has cut its 2020 budget due to the coronavirus pandemic. Where will the allocation cash come from and terminate it before the end of your administration, which is spent?
Two years and 10 months is still a long time for me and for God. This task will not be completed in a year, the thing is to get started and God will stay in his way. We gather all our assignments, we can’t start assigning new assignments as such; we have to conclude everything we do. But the local government has to start with the pillar, and then next year we’ll come and do the boulochage and then we’ll continue. We’ll get this task out.
In the fitness sector, you’re building a medical school. What’s the scenario of things there?
Right now, we have many finishing fabrics available. In terms of construction, we have reached about 80 cents of completion, in terms of equipment; We paid about 40 cents for medical school. We have an ophthalmological center there that will be the maximum productive in all of West Africa, we have a cancer center there, we have a kidney transplant center, we also have a dialysis center, we have a factory that produces dialysis. Dialysis is a disposable component of dialysis consistent with one that is the estimated maximum of this dialysis or consistent with one and is not produced anywhere in Africa. So we took this generation out of Switzerland and we’ve already paid 40% consistent with a percentage and it’s going really well. We also have specialized pediatricians who will care for very small babies, we have two hostels for men and women, we have 8 buildings committed to junior and senior staff, we have a secondary school committed to the network and a number one school is approaching.
He has also inspected paintings at the Ebonyi airport site; What is the expected delivery time?
It’s 2020; We are still in 2022 to complete the airport project. Some of the vital projects we are passionate about are the airport, the medical school, the dualization of the Abakaliki-Afikpo highway, the dualization of the Abakaliki-Enugu road and the stadium, those are the big projects we have.
The Bible says that when men say there is a fall, we will say that there is an elevation. Abraham turned to God when he asked him to stick to him to show him a country in which he believed in God. When God sends you to a project and you have a hobby, He gives you a vision that you pursue with a hobby. Everything is imaginable for those who believe. Then you’ll have to have a hobby, God will open a way for you.
The airport terminal is the length of our grocery shopping center, if you can insinuate the mall; it’s like two and a part of the length of the mall. It will be the largest terminal in the country. We have done almost 90% of the boulochage, and that is the real task and it is the pictures that cost the most, what is on the floor is more than what comes.
The asphalt is one hundred meters wide; it’s like ten lanes in four kilometers. Asphalt is something else because there is a load effect, a load of traction and also a dynamic load, there is a special design, but the earth movements are very difficult, we cross valleys and hills and we are there. You can see the road to the airport, about four kilometers away. The airport’s flyover is brewing.
Chijioke Agwu, governor of the state of Abakaliki Ebonyi, David Umahi, trusted the other people of the state who hisArray..
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