12/10/2019
*57THMONTH AND 13THDAYS OF UNPRECEDENTED INFRASTRUCTURAL STRIDES OF GOV. DAVID NWEZE UMAHI IN EBONYI STATE*
*MEDIA WARLORD*
.................Still counting.............
Engr. David Nweze Umahi on assumption of office on 29th May, 2015 started his mission of salvaging Ebonyi State with adding value to an ordinary Ebonyi man who hitherto was an object of mockery among people of other climes.
To achieve this, the governor created the ministry of Human Capital Development and through it Ebonyians started having some sense of belonging in the state governance; people, especially, women and youths who thought would amount to nothing were given loans and grants to add value to their lives. Training was also given to brush them up and imbibe into them the required skills for self reliance.
Apart from the unskilled status of an average Ebonyian, another great challenge facing the state was the problem of Infrastructure.
To our neighbouring states, Ebonyi state was synonymous to debris, dilapidation, dirty and poverty. Some even among Ebonyians nicknamed the State, “Dust of the Nation”
That went far at pointing at what we were like before Engr. David Nweze Umahi came on board. He met all these and faced them nonstop.
Then, to make Ebonyi man feel human in the eyes of other Nigerians, Engr Umahi embarked on the construction of roads in the state starting with roads in the state capital, Abakaliki. Parks, markets and streets began to wear new look with drainages and water fountains which make the state presently the centre of attraction, thereby returning the lost glory of the state as Salt of the Nation.
Ogoja-Onuebonyi-Rice Mill Road
Gunning road
New Market road
Nkaliki-EBBC-EBHA-Abakaliki LGA road
Hossanna-Old park
Jos street
Obiri Street
Nwodo street
Mberi street
Awolowo Street
Nsugbe street
Uga street
Ezza road
Udensi Roundabout-Mile 50
Adig suit road
Gulf Roundabout-Quarry-Fidelis Mbam road
Hausa quarters street
Onwe road
Vanco junction to Government House
Convent road
Udemezue street.
Akam street
Ejiofor street
Afikpo road-Spera-in-deo junction
Nkaliki-EBBC-EBHA-Abakaliki road
Ezika street
CBN road, started by Elechi govt and completed by Governor. David Nweze Umahi led administration.
Aniekwena street.
Ukwansi street
Nkwogu street
Ojowere street.
Akanu-Ibiam flyover bridge
Presco Junction flyover bridge
International market flyover bridge
EBSU campus gate pedestrian crossing
Watchman street
Haraca-Oshim Igbele street
Arondizogu street
Obi street
Obodoukwu street
Osborne la-palm-Ogbaga road
Onogolu street
Earkanca street
Nkwogu street
Ziks Avenue
Woodberry suite-Agbadu Ozo-Ezillo Avenue road
Mgbabor street
Ugwuachara-Orokeonuha road
Nsukka street
Okeke street
Isuofia street
Nneofia street
Mbadugha
Uke street
Nanka street
Itapa Azobo street
Ibe street
Presco Junction -Umuoghara road
Ezekuna street
Nwele street
Uwanna street
Umeugo Street, off Ezza road
Emefor street
Udude street
Nwaofia crescent street
A section of Abakaliki/Enugu road
St Patrick’s road-Unity FM-Otozi street road
Ezzamgbo-Effium road
Hilltop-Agbaja-Nwofe road
Ishieke-Nwiboko Obodoukwu road
Amike-Abegu-Ozibo bridge.
Enyibichiri Ikwo road
Ndufu-Alike-FUNAI road
Nkalagu-Ehamufu road
Amasiri-Okposi-Uburu Road
Ezzama-Oshiri-Onicha-Uburu road
Amasiri-Nguzu-Owutu Edda road
Amangwu-Owutu Edda bridge
Ihenu Channelization-culverts.
Ogbebi road, near St Mary’s Catholic Church Afikpo.
2 kilometer street light, Eke Market road, Afikpo.
Ugwuachara to water reservoir road
Police junction to water reservoir road
Lagos street
Obiri street
Obi street
Ogbaga street
Chukwuma Ofoke street
Emeka Omega street
Ugwuachara to Oroke-Onuha road
Senator Nwite road
Ngbukobe to water reservoir road
Nnodo to Nkaliki to hatchery road
Fred Udogu road
Chinew Elom street
John Eke street
Omogo street to Ukwuakpa
Okwasi/Umuna street from Police station Nkaliki to Hausa qrts
Woodberry suite/Agbadu Ozo/Ezillo Avenue road to Agon place (Democracy Estate). 27, Quarry road to Enugu-Abakaliki express road
Amudo street off Nnorom street with spur to Emefor and Udude street Ephraim Okwor street
Ugwomu Ukpai stree
Onwe Akanu street,
Today all these roads, flyovers etc have been completed.
It didn’t end there, the governor also undertook other mind blowing projects which no one ever believed was achievable; the fly over bridges, three at a time; finished and commissioned in matter of months while the last one at Abomege junction is over 90% completed.
Then the governor turned to what was called International market by the past administration and gave it “Umahic” touch that made it to qualify been shown to the world. And then, the Ecumenical Centre began, finished and furnished, commissioned and put to use. The Shopping Mall and the Tunnel leading to it plus the overhead pedestrian bridge at Ebonyi state University, Abakaliki’s Permanent site along Abakaliki – Enugu Expressway.
And to make Ebonyi the real salt which inevitably it is in our country, the governor entered the thirteen local government areas with concrete road and none was less than fifteen kilometre each. They were also done and dusted.
The glory of the second tenure shall be greater than the first.......
As Abakaliki international Airport and Abakaliki Olympic stadium underway........
Ejike Emmanuel
