By Our Reporter
Cross River State Commissioner for Works , Dane Osim has confirmed that the ministry received N18.6 billion from the federal government to fix some Trunk A roads in parts of the state.
Osim explained that the amount covers interventions done by previous governments of Donald Duke, Liyel Imoke and Ben Ayade.
This was disclosed during a ministerial press briefing in Calabar.
The commissioner said out of the eleven Trunk A roads, the state government rehabilitated nine which were in very poor state.
“We still have outstanding refunds as we are still intervening. We are requesting that Federal Government expedite actions on the Calabar-Uyo federal road.
“There are many other Trunk A roads built in about 1968 which today have failed and we plead that they should be rehabilitated.”
He also disclosed the state government’s efforts on its signature project of 280km superhighway road, explaining that the government has since done the initial debushing from Bakassi to the fringes of Benue State.
Anambra gunmen kill teenager, burn 1,240 INEC materials
Some yet-to-be-identified assailants have attacked the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission at Ojoto, in the Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State.
The hoodlums also attacked the Nnobi Police Station and a residential building at the station.
Both Ojoto and Nnobi are in the Idemili South LGA.
It was gathered that the gunmen invaded both facilities around 1.45am on Wednesday in four unmarked Sienna vehicles.
They were reportedly armed with petrol bombs and other explosives.
Sources said the hoodlums burnt the INEC’s office before proceeding to the police station, where they killed the teenage boy and injured another girl.
The hoodlums were said to have been repelled by security operatives before they could carry out further attacks on the police facility.
