In his
desperate bid in showing records of President Goodluck Jonathan’s achievements
in order to boost his chances of winning his second term in office,
investigations have revealed that the picture of Enugu/Port Harcourt Road shown
by Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity,
on his website was a blatant lie.
On his website,
reubenabati.com.ng, Abati had displayed the
road as part of the "Transformation Agenda" of Jonathan being
fulfilled.
According to
the story titled, ‘Transformation
Continues! GEJ Flags Off New Section Of Enugu-Portharcourt Road’ President
Jonathan, who was represented at the flagging off of the road by the Minister
for Works, Chief Mike Onolememen, said the gesture was a demonstration of his
avowed commitment to the development of road infrastructure in the country in
line with the transformation agenda of his administration.
He noted that the Enugu-Port
Harcourt dual carriage way is an important North-South arterial highway route
connecting so many important cities in the country.
Jonathan said the highway
constructed over 70 years ago was begging for total rehabilitation following
enormous pressure on it as a result of increasing traffic flow, hence, the
resolve of his administration to give it a face-lift.
He noted with delight the progress
of work on section one of the expressway, stretching from Lokpanta to Aba
awarded in 2013, hinting that section three of the road spanning from Enugu to
Lopkanta had already been awarded and would be flagged-off next week.
Onolememen
said with the award of contract for the second and third sections of the road, “the
entire stretch of the Enugu-Port Harcourt highway is now under total
rehabilitation.”
This
he added was in response to “the cries and yearnings of the good people
of the South-South and South East zones and indeed all Nigerians.”
However,
investigations by The Mega StarNews showed that the road in question was
actually a Doula/Yaounde Road Project in Cameroon commissioned sometimes last
year.
Now, check out the two stories and
the same picture being used. Who constructed this road, Cameroun or Nigeria?
Transformation Continues! GEJ Flags
Off New Section Of Enugu-Portharcourt Road
Posted 2015-03-06 04:12:17
President Goodluck
Jonathan yesterday flagged off the second section of the Enugu-PortHarcourt
Expressway.
According to Punch, the 41.4 kilometer road was awarded to the
China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) at the cost of N34,
047, 096, 919.17 with a completion period of 30 months.
President Jonathan who was represented at the flagging off of
the road by the Minister for Works, Chief Mike Onolememen, said the gesture was
a demonstration of his avowed commitment to the development of road
infrastructure in the country in line with the transformation agenda of his administration.
He noted that the Enugu-Port Harcourt dual carriage way is an
important North-South arterial highway route connecting so many important
cities in the country.
Jonathan said the highway constructed over 70 years ago was
begging for total rehabilitation following enormous pressure on it as a result
of increasing traffic flow, hence, the resolve of his administration to give it
a face-lift.
He noted with delight the progress of work on section one of the
expressway, stretching from Lokpanta to Aba awarded in 2013, hinting that
section three of the road spanning from Enugu to Lopkanta had already been
awarded and would be flagged-off next week.
Onolememen said with the award of
contract for the second and third sections of the road, “the entire stretch of the Enugu-Port Harcourt highway is
now under total rehabilitation.”
This he added was in response
to “the cries and yearnings of the good
people of the South-South and South East zones and indeed all Nigerians.”
It will be recalled that
President Jonathan last year said, his administration has created lots of job
opportunities and constructed many Projects in the South East.
(NAIJ.COM)
1.6 billion FCfa blocks
Douala-Yaoundé road construction project
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Thursday, 27 March 2014 03:00
(Business in Cameroon) - Questioned by the
Cameroonian government’s daily publication, Mr Lu, one of the heads of China First Highway Engineering, the company
that nabbed the deal to build the Douala-Yaoundé highway, has indicated that
the project’s commencement has been blocked by the indemnity that local
residents in the area of the project have not received. The compensation
package is officially valued at 1.587 trillion FCfa for those living along the
first 10 km of the project.
“We’re actually ready to start building. Our
engines are in position. Currently, we have 195 units of heavy equipment and
other smaller units on site, amounting to a total of 211 engines along the
project area to PK37. But we can’t touch a single tree or blade of grass if
local residents haven’t received their compensation,”explained Mr Lu.
He goes on to reveal that, due to the
modifications made to the original project by the Cameroonian authorities,
particularly the replacement of the Chinese speed limit (100 Km/h) with that of
the French (110 Km/h) and the addition of extra lanes, “the starting phase will be reduced as its
financing has already been disbursed. We can only do 47 Km now to stay within
budget.”
Indeed, the initial construction contract
planned to build 68 Km of roadway with 23 Km being updated for a total cost of
284 billion FCfa, of which 241 billion FCfa was provided by Eximbank of China,
following a financing agreement signed with the Cameroonian government on June
28, 2012 in Yaoundé. The Yaoundé-Douala highway project aims to create a modern
network of around 215 Km between Cameroon’s two largest cities. Construction
will last around 60 months, of which 12 will be used to conduct studies.
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