To control effects of flood
water on Deltans, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has said the state government will
spend more than N30 billion for construction of storm drains
According to the Governor,
the amount would take care of eight storm drainage channels including their
discharge points.
The Governor made the
disclosure in Asaba during the first quarterly interactive session with
Journalists for the year, 2018.
“We have taken the bull by the horn as regards the flood control
in the state; we wanted to be sure that we were on the right path, we did not
just want to start constructing drains all over again without bringing
solutions to the flood issues in Asaba so our consultants worked with the
Nigerian Society of Engineers to provided us with eight options of drains,” he
said.
“Storm drainages that we had to undertake as a state which was
put at a total cost of a little above N30 Billion and out of the eight
strategic network of Drains we chose to work with three as they were very
critical and the total cost of the three is about N11 Billion.”
He continued, “the first one we started with was the one that is
going to be within the area of DLA road through Jesus Saves road, the Agric
Road area and that is the construction that is ongoing straight from that area
through the Nnebisi road to the Amilimocha river and I think that the project
has gone very far; we have been promised that the project will be delivered by
the end of May this year and we are happy to announce that from my inspections,
the project is going on very well and I am sure that a lot of us would have had
the opportunity to see this construction and for those of us who may not have,
I must appeal that for us to be able to do proper reporting, there is a need
for us to visit projects to see what is on going.”
“There are two other projects, one of them is the drainage
project that will take us through Ambassador Ralph Uwechie road to discharge to
the Anwai stream and that project is already ongoing. The project was awarded
about a month ago and work is ongoing and it will take 12 months to complete. So, we may not be getting all the relief within the Okpanam areas all through
the rainy season but, it is our hope that before the next rainy season they
would have completed the project.
So hopefully the project will be delivered by
God's grace by the end of February 2019 and once it is completed it is going to
drain the larger part of Okpanam. Part of the water coming from Okpanam
will be drained through the project that has a discharge point at the Iyi-Abi
stream that is across the Asaba/Onitsha expressway. I am happy to announce
that the company working on the Okpanam project has stepped up their pace of
work.
The third of the storm drainage projects is the one that is going to
drain DBS area and the adjoining areas around the DBS and that project is a 12
month project and I hope that they all will be delivered on time because, the
impact of the projects will only be fully felt in the year 2019 and it is my
hope that we can reasonably go far enough before the rains sets in this year.”
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