Minister of Works, Sen. David Umahi has announced plans by the Federal Government to construct 477 kilometre – six-lane Super Highway transversing five states to the Federal Capital Territory.
The minister said that the road was an agricultural and economic corridor that would support President Bola Tinubu’s drive for food sufficiency in the country. “The road is a spur of the coastal highway that runs from Lagos to Calabar and was designed by the colonial masters to integrate the Southeast states,” he said.
“There is no part of the southeast zone that is not touched on road revolution: Umuahia-Aba-Port Harcourt road, Enugu—Abakaliki road, Onitsha-Owerri-Aba roads, among others,” he said. “You laid an irreversible foundation for the state’s infrastructural development and this sustenance conforms with our administration’s people’s charter of needs mantra.
Sen. Onyekachi Nwebonyi described the project as a ‘dream come true’, noting that his constituents had been yearning for the project.