FG commences rehabilitation of 36.5km Wukari-Ibi road

Senator Emmanuel Bwacha, representing Taraba-South Senatorial zone on Friday flagged off the rehabilitation of 36.5 kilometers Wukari -Ibi road, which is expected to gulp N1 billion.

He explained that the project, which was approved by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and that of Power, Works and Housing, as a rural road project was appropriated for in the 2017 and 2018 budgets. Senator Bwacha commended the federal government for its commitment to infrastructural development.

Senator Bwacha, who is also the Senate Deputy Minority Leader, charged people of the host community to cooperate with the contractor, Moulds Nigeria Ltd, to ensure the project is completed in six weeks as scheduled.

While commenting on the security situation in the country, Bwacha said the statement made by President Muhammadu Buhari in London that those attacking Nigerians were Libyans trained by Gadaffi, was a confirmation of his earlier stance on the issue.

“We take the last statement of the President in the United Kingdom to mean that he has now seen the reality of the time. All other statements he made on the issue in the past were falsehood fed to him by some of his aides who do not mean well for Nigeria. Now that he has finally gotten the true picture of what is happening in Nigeria today as far as insecurity is concerned, someone must lose his job if the President wants Nigerians to take him seriously”, he said.

He also disclosed that work on the abandoned Akwana Mobile Police Barracks which he initiated years ago as a House of Representatives member would soon resume as N1.3 billion has been appropriated for it in the 2018 budget.