COMISSIONER FOR WORKS, RALPH NWOSU PROVIDES ANSWERS ON A WIDE RANGE OF QUESTIONS
ANSWER: We are not only interested in constructing new roads, the ones we have before, we maintain them.
Also we are trying to come into Works Layout, to move the flood water by constructing a tunnel to connect to Nwaorie River like what we have done at Otamiri, we would do that to save the people living around those areas. Those are fundamental things we must do.
*Ralph Nwosu, Commissioner for Works Imo State on Hotfm 99.5 this morning.*
[23/07, 10:30 am]
ANSWER: “On Owerri-Okigwe road, we have been able to expand the road up to 12.3 metres wide so that even if we can’t have dual carriage way, we can have a wider road that can take vehicles and people can move even more conveniently. If we have all the resources, we can turn the whole place into a huge construction site because the infrastructural deficit in the state is unbelievable. We have not even touched the Zones and considering our purse and how much we have, you would know we have been doing our best.”
*Ralph Nwosu, Commissioner for Works Imo State* .
[23/07, 10:30 am]
ANSWER: Construction of Relief Market road for instance, you cannot say it’s not strategic, and other adjoining roads, Construction of MCC road, World bank to Umuguma, Assumpta to General Hospital, all those roads are strategic but we cannot take all of them at the same time, that’s the truth of the matter.
We have started Akwakuma roundabout going down to Orlu road - those are very heavy projects and if you juxtapose them with what we have as resources you will know that we are faced with a giant construction challenge and I just want to appeal that we must have to take them gradually.
If we had done what we are supposed to do in the last 10 years, I don’t think we would be talking about this roads now, but these are fundamental areas and we have to tackle them.
*Ralph Nwosu, Commissioner for Works Imo State on Hotfm 99.5 this morning.*
[23/07, 10:51 am]
ANSWER: With what we have done at the Warehouse and Fire Service roundabouts, what we are doing at Naze junction, Emmanuel College junction and others, all these are things we would do, so that when you move into the arterial roads, you know we are doing something worthwhile.
"We are not owing any contractor, anyone that has done his job must be paid".
I am very happy and proud with what His Excellency the Governor has done in that regard.
*Ralph Nwosu, Commissioner for Works Imo State on Hotfm 99.5 this morning* .
[23/07, 11:02 am]
ANSWER: Like I said before, we cannot do everything at the same time. It is not possible. If the roads they call China roads were properly done, we would not go back to those roads.
If today, we are bringing down the tunnels, we are bringing them down for the safety of the people, we are not saying that we know it all. But if I am in the Ministry of Works, I cannot find the design of the tunnels to see what we can do ameliorate it, what else do you expect me to do? The designs are not there, the payment for the projects are not there, what exactly do you want me to do? Until people die there? I don’t have the file of that project and you know how flooded the tunnels get whenever it rains and people say we should keep quiet. That is not how government works.
*Ralph Nwosu, Imo States Commissioner for Works
ANSWER: Okigwe people cannot say there is no road from the roundabout to St. Marys. We have even started the Stadium road in Okigwe that is not in the state capital.
In Orlu today, the Teaching Hospital road has been delivered and yet to be commissioned and some other places. I make no apologies, on the RAMP roads, if you are observant, you would know the Deputy Governor is leading a team that is moving round the 27 LGAs.
They are moving around the state with the consultants to make sure the proper things are done and we have moved further as a government to make sure when those roads are done, they are supposed to be surface dressed , but we have gone ahead to ensure they are asphalted. We shall not leave it at the stage it is supposed to be done under RAMP.
*Ralph Nwosu, Commissioner for Works Imo State on HotFm this morning.*
ANSWER: Avu Road - Adapalm road is under a running contract by the NDDC and in-fact RMFAC will be visiting Adapalm soon. We have a comprehensive programme for Adapalm and the roads are not left out. If the contractors from NDDC are not prepared to do that, we move in because our people are there. Some of the roads we are doing are federal roads but we cannot say because they are federal roads and allow our people suffer unnecessarily. Adapalm as a company is owned by the government and is a cash cow. We are not going to allow it go and the Governor is currently interfacing with NDDC, if they’re not ready to do the road, we shall do the needful.
I was told go for a palliative and I said No that Adapalm has passed palliative level. It will be waste of funds doing a palliative intervention on such road. What it requires is a comprehensive work on it. If NDDC is not ready, we go ahead to do what we have done on other federal roads. That’s the position.
*Ralph Nwosu, Commissioner for Works Imo State on HotFm this morning*
ANSWER: "We cannot construct all roads in Imo State within just one year and six months in office",
It's not bournvita you buy off the shelve.
*Works Commissioner, Ralph Nwosu* .
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