Stakeholders Seek FG’S Intervention On Deplorable Calabar- Itu Road
NIGHTMARE on CalabarItu Federal Government Highway has remained unabated. National Assembly members and motorists have cried out for an urgent Federal Government’s intervention.
Speaking with The Guardian in Calabar, at the weekend,
Senator representing Southern Senatorial District of Cross River State, Gershom Bassey, called for adequate funding and award of contract for the entire CalabarItu Highway, to end the sufferings of the people plying the route.
Bassey said: “Though Julius Berger was awarded the contract for construction of the highway, there is a critical section of the road that was not awarded. I am calling for a complete and total award of the entire road.”
Bassey said he had made a similar plea recently at the Senate while supporting a motion moved by Senator Bassey Albert Akpan of Akwa
Ibom North East Senatorial for the award of contract for complete construction of the highway.
He advised the Executive arm to provide funds for maintenance of critical infrastructure, which has only N30bn in the 2021 budget for 36,000km federal roads in the country.