Benue pays N7.1bn compensation to property owners affected by federal road projects

The Benue State Government has spent astir N7.1 cardinal connected compensation for properties and different interests affected by national roadworthy projects crossed the state.

The Director of Civil Engineering successful the authorities Ministry of Works, Engr. Tivfa Wombo, disclosed this during an inspection of ongoing roadworthy projects successful Makurdi led by the Commissioner for Works, Hon. Aii Yenge.

Wombo provided details of the government’s fiscal interventions portion briefing the recently appointed commissioner and journalists connected projects being executed by the ministry and different measures taken to enactment roadworthy operation crossed the state.

He said N5 cardinal had been paid arsenic compensation for properties wrong the right-of-way of the Makurdi-Enugu roadworthy dualisation project.

According to him, the roadworthy task is simply a Federal Government inaugural presently being executed from the Wurukum axis towards the Benue-Nugu boundary.

He explained that the compensation was approved by Governor Hyacinth Alia to guarantee that the required corridor was made disposable to the Federal Government and contractors moving connected the project.

Wombo said the outgo represented p...