Soludo Flags Off Over Sixty Three Kilometers Of Road To Mark Six Months In Office On Saturday
Anambra State Governor, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo will flag off the rehabilitation of over sixty-three kilometres of roads across the state this Saturday.
Governor Soludo dropped the hint at the commissioning of a 1.7-kilometre road, built by Chief Val Onwumelu in Umuoji, Idemili North Local Government Area.
Governor Soludo who was pleased with the community reaffirmed that the best way to develop the state was through Public Community Private Partnership, (PCPP), not through government funding alone
He emphasized that, PCPP was the kind of strategy Anambra state should be mainstreaming and which every community should emulate.
Speaking further, he recalled the Neni model which the Governor described as the Anambra spirit, explaining that when the people of Neni started it, Chief Tonimas of blessed memory took up the challenge and ended up tarring about 18 kilometres of road, with some other equally good spirited individuals joining with additional 6kms of roads.
“The Tonimas experience is an example. Umuoji and Anambra, if you know the much you can do, please do. We have come to celebrate that community spirit that distinguishes Anambra from the rest. I promised Ndi Anambra that there will be a difference, that I will account for the limited resources, to affect the poorest of the poor and downtrodden. We have entered ’ember’ months and Anambra will become a massive construction site. As for the Inland door road, we declare state of emergency on it. I’ve told the Commissioner for Works that this week, they must begin to mobilize there. Whatever is needed to mobilize, we will provide”.
The Governor in a related development also flagged off the rehabilitation of the popular Mmili John road, Ojoto, in Idemili South Local Government Area of the State
Speaking at the occasion, Governor Soludo said, “We have come to break a long-standing jinx at the famous Mmili John where whenever it rains, the flood occupies the road, such that commuters cannot differentiate the river from
the road. The solution is here. We have come and the Mmili John problem will be done with.”
