1ST ANNIVERSARY: We’re Providing Basic Infrastructures Needed To Drive Economic Growth, Enhance Standard of Living, Says Edet, Works Commissioner
Ekanem ASUQUO
The Ministry of Works and Infrastructure in any government is pivotal to the attainment of set targets with regard to the maintenance, expansion, development, and provision of basic infrastructures needed to drive economic growth while enhancing the standard of living.
For the foregoing, it presupposes that anyone presiding over the affairs of such critical MDAs must be a stickler for due process/ diligence, quality control, and globally acceptable standards buoyed with the passion to deliver bearing in mind his success has the proclivity to either endear the administration to the masses or attract their wrath which could be vividly express at any coming poll.
Within the last year in Cross State, the man at the helm of affairs at the Ministry of Works and infrastructure, Mr, Pius Edet, has demonstrated, without doubt, that despite his variant academic profile, he has the drive, commitment, focus, and penchant for galvanising the gamut of the Otu-led administration to accord optimum priority towards addressing the litany of deplorable road network and other vital infrastructures that littered the entire landscape of the state when Governor Bassey Otu took over the reign of government.
Some of projects include the construction/ dualization of Esuk Uta road, rehabilitation of Parliamentary Extension Road, rehabilitation of Atakpa-Watt roundabout/Culvert, construction of Air Force Barracks Internal Road Network drains at IBB, construction Akim Barracks internal road, rehabilitation of Murtala Mohammad/Marian Road, the construction of Yellow Duke Culvert in Calabar South and construction Chambly Channel one Drain/Culvert.
Other projects are the rehabilitation of UTCH/ Unical Hotel Road, rehabilitation of Edim Otop Road, construction of Nyong Edem Concrete Pavement Road in Calabar South, construction of Muri-Eke Road (Concrete Pavement option)in Efio Ete Calabar Municipal, construction of Okoro Agbor by Marian Road, and construction of 29.87 kilometers of NSA Oban road in Akamkpa LGA Ongoing rehabilitation projects include Ekpo Abasi, Etagbor, New Airport Road, Abitu Road, Anantigha Road, Uwanse Road, Enebong Road, Jeb Road, Atamunu Road, Orok Orok Road, Akpanika Road, Azikiwe Road and Yellow Duke Road in Calabar South.
While Douglas Street, Bishop Moynagh, Essien Town, Old Odukpani Road, Spring Road all Calabar Municipality are receiving attention.
In Cross River North, the ministry has embarked on rehabilitation of Ndok Junction -Abakpa Igoli-Monaya Junction in Ogoja LGA, the construction of Ogoja Ring, the construction of 3kilometer phase 1 Akreha Road/ Bridge Project in Yaha LGA just as massive construction and rehabilitation of the dilapidated road network in Cross River Central will soon commence.
The Ministry of Works under the watch of Pius Edet is poised to propel a revolution in the infrastructure sector in the state with a view of ensuring seamless human and vehicular movement to fast-track transportation of agricultural produce from the hinterlands to urban to give farmers optimum returns and promote economic prosperity
