Ebonyi links 156 communities with roads
The provision of
roads and bridges by the Ebonyi State government in 2010 has linked 156
of the 270 communities in Ebonyi State. Paul Okorie, the state
Commissioner for Works and Transport, disclosed this at the weekend in
an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abakaliki. Mr Okorie
said that the communities could not access each other for years due to
lack of roads and bridges.
He listed some of
the communities to include Isu, Agba, Nkomoru in Ishielu Local
Government, which are now enjoying a seven-km road, and bridges; and
Eketube and Enyigba in Abakaliki Local Government area also provided
with six bridges.
“Ubeagu, Onyikwa,
Ogbaga, Nkaliki, Ugbodo, Okposi, Umuaghara, Uburu, Okwo, Uburu,
Nkerefi, Mgbo, Umuobuduakwu communities were also linked with their
kith and kin through the provisions of bridges and asphalted roads,” he
said.
The commissioner
said that some of the communities had existed for decades without the
opportunity of transporting their agricultural products to neighbouring
markets, adding that with the provision of roads and bridges, they
could now do so with ease.
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