Keyamo: Paucity of Funds Hampering East-west, Other Federal Roads

FG inaugurates 7.85km Isoko ring road in Delta

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday inaugurated the N2 billion Section II, Uzere-Aviara Ring Road in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State built by the federal government, assuring of his administration’s commitment to completion and delivering of ongoing infrastructural projects across the country.

Represented at the ceremony by the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, the president said that many parts of the country would have been touched by his administration’s infrastructure development but for paucity of funds, noting that he had to go beyond the traditional source of funding so as to ensure timely completion of the second Niger bridge.

Inaugurating the UzereAviara road, which links every major part of agrarian Uzere community with the neighboring Isoko community of Aviara, President Buhari said: “Our commitment to improving road transport infrastructure, our determination to improve the ease doing business, create jobs and prosperity to lift people out of poverty brings us here today because the results of our investment are manifesting.

“I can confidently say that as we enter the final lap of the tenure of the tenure of this administration, we also entering a season of completion and delivery of projects”, saying that the 7.85 kilometer Uzere-Aviara Road, by the inauguration, “becomes a critical component of our national road network,” he said.

He enumerated some of the economic and social benefits of the Uzere-Aviara Ring road, including reduced financial, time and safety costs of transportation, saying that employment of local people in building the road “is also a story of the capacity of our people.”

“This road is also a statement of economic efficiency and ease of doing business. This is because the travel time before construction has now reduced since the completion of the

road.