Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has said his administration had constructed 60 roads across the state since inauguration in 2015.
According to him, 33 out of the 60 roads constructed are located in Aba, while about 105 construction sites are currently active in the state.
“Clearly, Aba has about 33 roads out a total stock of 60 completed roads.
‘’We have a catchment of 25 million people coming into Abia everyday to do business; this is true because of the confluence nature of our cities.
“No other state in Nigeria has more neighbours than Abia apart from Kaduna. We have seven neighbours.
“So, we decided to first build roads that will give access from each neighbouring state into Abia; they are the roads we regard as inter-state roads.’’
“We are doing roads that link people into Ariaria Market; for the first time in 20 years, we have been able to open the access to Ariaria from Brass to the expressway which never happened.
“We are doing Eziukwu road because it leads to Eziukwu Market; we are doing Port-Harcourt road because there is a hub for metal fabrication around Port Harcourt road in spite of the fact that it is a federal road.
“We are doing Aba-Owerri road because it leads into the city. The three roads I mentioned earlier, Ehere, Ukegbu and Umuola can give you access to Akwa-Ibom and in order to make sure that people from other states come,’’ he said.
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