Our Government Reserved Area Almost 95% Completed: Bayelsa State Government

 

The Bayelsa sate Government  has disclosed that roads at the New Yenagoa City,  are almost ninety- five percent completed urging Bayelsans and all  to start investing in the area.

Speaking at the weekend  in Yenagoa on behalf of Bayelsa State Government, Surveyor Moses Teibowei, Commissioner of Works and Infrastructure who spoke to members of the Federated Correspondents’ Chapel who were on tour of the ongoing projects in Yenagoa, maintained that already all plans were on ground to make sure that it happens.

 This was as  the Prosperity Government assured that she will finish all the ongoing projects before she rounds up her second tenure encouraging people to start buying lands from the area.

 Teibowei said that the contractors were not being owed especially as it regards to the level of work done so far adding that the Prosperity Government was doing a very solid job that will stand the taste of time.

 He said: “I can tell you that about 95% of the roads have been completed. As I said earlier, road one and two were commissioned during the last anniversary but roads three to six were not commissioned because they we not ready. But I believe that when his excellency will be celebrating his sixth year in office, roads three to six will be commissioned and apart from these dual carriage ways, we also have single carriage roads within the new Yenagoa City.

“Having completed road one to six, our next focus is to start work on the single carriage ways because between road one and two, there are several plots in between all of them.

 He disclosed that the place was well planned assuring that other supporting facilities will be provided.

“We have been able to complete all the dual carriage ways but there are still internal single carriage roads that supposed to be inbetween the major dual carriage ways."

 The commissioner said that the launching of beam for the Angiama /Oporma road has started but because of the length of that bridge which is 630 meters it is being slowed down adding that "the bridge is the longest bridge being constructed by Bayelsa State Government since the state was created in 1996.

He maintained that the Bridge is longer than that of Kaiama and Patani. “It will be the longest Bridge constructed by the state.

“The longest one will be the one to be constructed and known as St Nicholas River  Bridge where phase one of Nembe/Brass Road will stop. "That will link to the phase two of it, which is being handled by the Federal Government.

 He disclosed that states are getting more money recently but regretted that “what we are getting now, cannot be used to do what we were doing in the previous time.

“The prices of things have skyrocketed. Now, twenty-one kilometers of road is 156 billion, the same kilometers of road that we awarded to Setraco for 56 billion naira.

"Even when it was reviewed, it came to 116 billion but the current one is 156 billion for the Federal Government so inflation is biting harder.

 He maintained that governor Diri is an activist adding that he believes that he was given the opportunity buy God.

 “He has to show and set a standard for the future. All he is doing is to set that standard with the work that is being done. Whoever that will take over from him, will come and do face lifting. We know what we are doing it is for the good of our people and we want what his excellency is putting on ground to speak for us."

Also speaking, Ebiuwuo Koko-Obiyai, commissioner for Information, Orientation and Strategy, Bayelsa State, asked Bayelsans to secure plots of land at the New Yenagoa City and  start developing them.

The commissioner maintained that the projects being executed by the Prosperity Government were evidence based adding that there are  also internal roads ongoing like the Oxbow Lake/Agbura road and the Polako/Sabagreia road among others.

She said that no government can finish everything “but one thing I know is that the governor is trying.”

Recall that a new city is fast emerging in place of New Yenagoa City that  will be part of the state  as a visit to the area  by this correspondent showed that  a lot developmental processes  were going on.