eha amufu isi-uzo lga critical infrastructure rural development road Ugwuanyi Inaugurates Eha Amufu-Nkalagu Road Deserted For 36 years

Ugwuanyi Inaugurates Eha Amufu-Nkalagu Road Deserted For 36 years

by Arinze Chijioke
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Enugu State governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, has inaugurated the 8.8km reconstructed portion of Ikem-Eha Amufu-Nkalagu Road, in Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of the state, which was abandoned over 36 years ago.

The 8.8km road, which was reconstructed for the people of the agrarian community of Eha Amufu in Isi-Uzo LGA is a gateway to the North through Obollo-Afor connecting Ebonyi State through Nkalagu.

The road also provides access to the Nigerian Factory at Nkalagu that used to be the mainstay of the economy and tourist attraction to Eastern Nigeria.

The road is one of the abandoned critical infrastructure and legacy projects in the rural areas, executed by Gov. Ugwuanyi’s administration in line with its rural development policy.

Inaugurating the road, Ugwuanyi said the project is part of his administration’s efforts to provide critical infrastructure to the rural communities to improve quality of life, ease evacuation of agricultural produce and facilitate market linkages and improve earnings amongst the rural population.

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He said the road will also help stimulate local commerce and ultimately reduce poverty while curtailing rural-urban migration”.

The governor, who maintained that integrated rural development and inclusive governance are the major planks of our administration disclosed that “we have vigorously pursued these objectives through numerous strategic rural infrastructural interventions”.

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Describing the road as one of the oldest Federal Roads in the country, built before the Nigerian Civil War, Ugwuanyi, who was accompanied by the Speaker of the State Assembly, Rt. Hon. Edward Ubosi, his colleagues, and the member representing Enugu East/Isi-Uzo Federal Constituency, Hon. Prince Cornelius Nnaji, among others, revealed that it was last rehabilitated in 1981 by the administration of Senator Jim Nwobodo as Governor of old Anambra State.

He said ”We are encouraged by the happy faces of the people from communities in Eha Amufu and environs that we see here today. you are the true heroes of democracy for you deserve this and even more”.

Earlier in his remark, the Chairman of Isi-Uzo LGA, Benjamin Edeoga, on behalf of the people of the council, thanked the governor for remembering the community and its environs after over three decades of neglect.

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