President Jonathan has blamed the unfinished Bodo-Bonny road
project in Rivers State on former president, Olusegun Obasanjo and the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) BoT chairman, Tony Anenih.
He
said the project was initially awarded 11 years ago under Obasanjo’s
term before it was cancelled was being executed 5km per year in the 8
years of that administration, the project would have been over by now.
He said, “About
the Bonny road project, if the previous governments had been doing it
5km a year, by now, we would have gone far. That was during former
president Olusegun Obasanjo’s regime. That was when Chief Tony Anenih
was minister of works. If we have been moving 5km a year from that time
till now, we would have gone far.
“We will see how to work with
the people of Bonny to improve on the development of the area.
Definitely, you need more social amenities so that the people will have
what it takes to live a normal life. On the Bonny road project, it is
almost like the story of the East-West road that was awarded without
proper planning. We will ask the management of the NDDC to see to it.
“I
won’t want to bore you with details of the lapses in the first
procurement of the Bodo Bonny road. Why the contract didn’t hold was
because there were major lapses. It’s almost like the story of the East
West Road that was awarded without proper design and so with time, it
got stuck. We just had to come back and that is what happened to the
Bodo Bonny Road”.
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