Ebonyi Govt moves against abandoned projects

The Ebonyi State Government has approved a bid of measures aimed astatine strengthening infrastructure, boosting agriculture, and improving the payment of residents crossed the state.

This followed the result of Tuesday’s State Executive Council meeting, which was disclosed connected Wednesday successful Abakaliki by the Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Barrister Ikeuwa Omebeh, during a property conference.

He noted that the decisions were “targeted astatine deepening bully governance and accelerating improvement crossed captious sectors of the authorities economy.”

Among the cardinal decisions is the termination of each uncompleted 2-kilometre agrarian roadworthy projects, pursuing concerns that immoderate contractors abandoned sites aft receiving payments oregon delivered substandard work. The authorities besides directed stricter verification of outgo certificates to guarantee accountability.

To enactment agrarian development, the authorities approved the merchandise of N300 cardinal arsenic its counterpart backing for the Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project (RAAMP) for the 2026 fiscal year. Omebeh described the task arsenic “strategic to impr...