Complete Portharcourt-Enugu road, rail projects, revive eastern seaports now – Ohanaeze to Tinubu

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has called connected President Bola Tinubu’s medication to urgently implicit the Port Harcourt-Enugu Expressway, the Port Harcourt-Enugu Standard Gauge Railway Line, and rehabilitate the Port Harcourt, Calabar and Warri seaports, describing the projects arsenic captious to Nigeria’s economical future.

The request was contained successful a communiqué issued aft the National Executive Council, NEC, gathering of Ohanaeze held successful Umuahia, the Abia State capital.

The organisation said the continued hold successful completing the projects person hampered economical growth, accrued the outgo of doing business, discouraged concern and weakened Nigeria’s competitiveness.

Ohanaeze urged the Federal Government to classify the projects arsenic matters of urgent nationalist economical importance, insisting that the telephone was based connected economical realities alternatively than determination oregon governmental interests.

According to the group, the projects would payment each parts of the state by improving transportation, boosting trade, strengthening nationalist integration and accelerating industrialisation.

The organisation described the Port Harcourt-Enugu corridor arsenic 1 of Nigeria’s astir strategical economical routes, linking the oil-rich Niger Delta with the commercialized and concern cent...