{"id":39109,"date":"2015-06-02T12:42:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T11:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=39109"},"modified":"2015-06-02T12:42:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T11:42:31","slug":"first-day-in-office-ikpeazu-flags-off-roads-in-aba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/first-day-in-office-ikpeazu-flags-off-roads-in-aba\/","title":{"rendered":"First Day in Office: Ikpeazu flags off roads in Aba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, started his first day in office\u00a0with the flag off of the construction of seven major roads in Aba, the\u00a0commercial nerve centre of the state, to give the city a face-lift.<\/p>\n<p>The roads which are to be completed within the first 100 days of his\u00a0administration include the Umuocham Road (1.7km) awarded to Ferotex\u00a0Construction Company Limited, Old Express Road (6km) awarded to Irishgreen\u00a0Global Concepts, Ukaegbu (1.4km), Umuola (1.4km) and Ehere (700metres)\u00a0Roads awarded to Macol Construction Company Limited.\u00a0The rest are Kamalu Road (1.5km) awarded to Raycon and Faulks Road by \u00a0Ariara (5.5km) awarded to Bills Limited Civil Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking while flagging off the roads, the Governor assured that quality\u00a0job will be done on the roads while street lights will be installed on\u00a0them.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, work will be going on simultaneously on all the roads\u00a0and stated that even though work has been done on some of the roads\u00a0without much success in the past, more durable work will be done this time\u00a0around.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor stated that completion of Kamalu Road which will link Okpulo\u00a0Umuobu in Osisioma LGA will ease traffic in Aba, charged those who have attachments on the roads where construction is going on to remove such\u00a0attachments immediately to quicken the pace of work.<\/p>\n<p>He assured that contractors who deliver quality job will be awarded more\u00a0contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in his speech, the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Works, Mr. #Richard Nwala said his ministry would give the roads accelerated\u00a0supervision, assuring that quality work will be done.<\/p>\n<p>Also conducting the Governor round, the contractors promised to deliver\u00a0good job and at record time.<\/p>\n<p>The excited residents gave Governor Ikpeazu who was accompanied by his\u00a0deputy, Rt. 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