N208m Afikpo power project: Ebonyi gov warns against misinformation
By Amarachi Ehia Abakaliki
Ebonyi State Government says the N208million power project at Amasiri, Afikpo North Local Government is on course.
Commissioner for information and state orientation, Jude Okpor disclosed this during a press briefing on the outcome of the state Executive Council meeting held on Tuesday, also used the occasion to warn mischief makers against misinforming the pubic on the matter.
The power project will help restore power supply to Afikpo local government area and its environs after 16 years of darkness.
There have been claims on social media that N208million for the power project has been embezzled.
The Commissioner explained that the project has been completed. According to him, it is awaiting connection to the National Grid after the completion of TCN Power Sub-Station in Amasiri.
Okpor said the government would not hesitate to sanction those misinforming the public thus heating up the polity.
Okpor said, “The state Executive Council took time to analyse the social media ripples that emanated from the Afikpo Light Project as well as issues surrounding it, and after an intense and exhaustive deliberation, the Council resolved to inform the general public that the job leading to the restoration of light in Afikpo, contrary to erroneous information being peddled in some sections of the media, has been satisfactorily completed, only awaiting connection to the National Grid after the completion of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) Power Sub-Station, Amasiri, from which the State Government has extracted commitment that the job would be completed before the end of the year.
“It may interest the general public to know that as part of its negotiation with the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), the State Government has approved payment for the diversion of the high-tension poles affected by the dualization of Enugu-Abakaliki-Ogoja Trans-Sahara Express Way.
“The Council however cautions those who are misinforming the general public without verifiable information to desist from such to ensure that peace continues to exist and for further development to thrive in the area, or be ready to face the wrath of the law”.
The Commissioner said the council approved the dualization of the popular Water Works Road in the state capital in its ongoing effort to return the city to its original master plan.
“In furtherance of the State Government’s ongoing effort to return the capital city to its original master plan, EXCO approved the dualization of the popular Water Works Road, which is from the Union Bank Junction through Obvudechi.
“The 39.5 km dual carriageway which is of two (2) phases, 19.750km each, received EXCO’s nod with a directive to the Council for Public Procurement to advertise the job”, he stated.
“To broaden the capacity of the Nwofe Comprehensive Health Centre, Izzi, and to ensure that the facility renders effective and efficient health services to the teeming citizens within the environs, EXCO approved the upgrading of the said Health Centre to a General Hospital,” he added.
