Mr Nwifuru made the call on Saturday whereas receiving his predecessor and Minister of Works, David Umahi, who is on an inspection tour of federal roads within the order.
The governor talked about Ebonyi used to be the glorious order without an ongoing federal facet road project.
“You merely highlighted three federal facet road initiatives within the order because the company handling no doubt one of them used to be disengaged by a past administration for depressed job execution.
“We lost a serving native executive save chairman on the facet road it constructed finest for the federal executive to re-engage the contractor.
“The federal executive paid the company N2.6 billion of the N2.8 billion contract sum for the sleek job and we would perchance no longer enable anybody to plug us in this sort of manner,” talked about Mr Nwifuru.
Mr Nwifuru additionally instructed the federal executive to address the teach of facet road constructing by ministries and other entities no longer linked with constructing.
“Avenue constructing needs to be left to the Ministry of Works, which has the manpower and instruments to create sturdy roads.
“The funds that were presupposed to be disbursed to the Ministry of Works must always no longer available because of the the multiplicity of facet road initiatives,” he talked about.
He, on the opposite hand, expressed optimism that Mr Umahi will solve the a number of problems going via the constructing sector within the nation.
Mr Umahi, in his response, counseled the governor, whom he described as his product, for his insurance policies in direction of bringing democratic dividends to his of us.
“We’re touring federal roads across the nation to have a look at their dwelling and be assured that such roads within the order shall be given due consideration.
“We’re propagating the message of utilizing concrete on our roads and directing relevant officials of the ministry to identify with governors for effective monitoring of roads,” he talked about.
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