Abia State Government has embarked on the dualisation of Ossah Road Umuahia from the Enugu/Port Harcourt Express Tower Junction to Michael Okpara Square, right inside the Umuahia City centre.
Commissioner for Information, Prince Okey Kanu who disclosed this during a press conference at the Government House Umuahia after the State Executive Council meeting, said that the project was part of efforts to uplift the status of Umuahia from a glorified village into a befitting state capital.
The Commissioner who was flanked at the briefing by the Commissioner for Health, Dr Mrs Ngozi Okoronkwo; and her Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs counterpart, Uzor Nwachukwu, said other important city roads including Umuahia -Ikot Ekpene Road; and Aba/Owerri Road, would soon get the attention of Government.
He also said that very soon major reconstruction of the dilapidated Port Harcourt Road Aba, and other strategic roads in the commercial city would begin.
Prince Kanu noted that Gov. Alex Otti had already commenced the renovation of nine roads in Aba metropolis to make them motorable pending their full rehabilitation.
The Commissioner who said that the major preoccupation of the Governor was to make city roads motorable as soon as possible, assured that very soon every community in the state would begin to feel the impacts of the new dawn in Abia.
