Renowned communicator and political analyst Ambrose Igboke clears the air on the false and misleading claims by Senator Okey Ezea and his social media praise singers, over the recent flag-off of the second phase of the Markudi-Nsukka-9th Mile federal road by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration, revealing that “Records show that the contract for that road was awarded during Fashola’s time as Works Minister. Indeed the work commenced from the Abuja-Makurdi end”.
Igboke further revealed that the MD of FERMA, in July 2023, (before Senator Ezea’s purported motion on the floor of the Senate) disclosed “that the contract has since been awarded and that the Chinese contractors were already mobilizing to site for the second phase of the road: Makurdi – 9th Mile. He promised that the contract will be funded soon. This was in July, 2023.”
Ambrose Igboke who debunked Senator Ezea’s claims that “his action was what made the government begin work on that road,” wrote…
“While we commend Senator Ezea for adding a voice to the deplorable condition of 9th Mile-Opi Road, it is unethical to say that his action was what made the government begin work on that road. Records show that the contract for that road was awarded during Fashola’s time as Works Minister. Indeed the work commenced from the Abuja-Makurdi end.
“As at July, 2023, a team of Nsukka Concerned People visited the MD of FERMA who assured that the contract has since been awarded and that the Chinese contractors were already mobilizing to site for the second phase of the road: Makurdi – 9th Mile. He promised that the contract will be funded soon. This was in July, 2023.
“It may also interest you that the team which went for that visit, called Senator Ezea to intimate him and urged him to raise the issue on the floor of the Senate, which he did.
“We are all Nsukka people and we should allow the Senator to do his work which he was voted to do. Our Senator is yet to settle down. Yet media praise singers are already dishing out phantom achievements. We should begin to engage him to do well, not praise singing.
“We wish our Distinguished Senator well.”
