Orji accuses works minister of neglecting Abia roads


Abia state governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has accused the Minister of Works, Mr. Mike Onolememen, of deliberately refusing to visit the state since he was appointed minister to avoid facing the people over the dilapidated condition of federal roads in the state.

Orji told the minister to continue to avoid visiting the state if he so decides, but warned that he would “enter in the bad book of the state and its people if the 65 kilometre Ohafia- Arochukwu road flagged off at the weekend is not completed as budgeted.”

Governor Orji who spoke at the flag-off of Nkporo-Abriba-Ohafia and Ohafia-Arochukwu federal roads wondered why the minister has not visited Abia State since over two years that he assumed office even when the state has many federal roads yearning, as it were, for attention.

The governor who also expressed disappointment that the minister could not use the opportunity of flagoff of the two roads to visit Abia and see things for himself, also said he wanted to send a representative when he got information that the minister was not coming but changed his mind because “my people are involved and the roads are for them”.

His word:”The minister (of works) has not visited Abia state for once, at least to see things for himself because seeing is believing. If he comes, we will take him to the sites, he will see things himself. Why he is not visiting Abia state? I don’t know,” he lamented. source http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/orji-accuses-works-minister-of-neglecting-abia-roads/