Edo State Commissioner for information and Strategy, Kassim Afegbua, has appealed to residents of the state to be patient, assuring that the Okpebholo administration will embark on massive road reconstruction during the dry season.
He stated this while addressing journalists during the ministry’s monthly media briefing.
Afegbua was joined at the briefing by the Commissioner for Art, Culture and Creative Economy, Chris Okaeben, Executive Secretary of the Edo State Drugs and Health Commodities Management Agency, Kenny Okojie and the Special Adviser on Health Matters, Dr. Andrew Iyamu.
The commissioner noted that any attempt to embark on road repairs at this time would amount to a wastage of construction materials.
He accused the immediate past administration of bad road construction which has led to the collapse of road infrastructure across Edo State, adding that the Okpebholo administration is deliberate and determined to turn the narrative around.
Afegbua urged Edo State people to be more patient with the governor, saying that he is ever determined to make the roads in the state motorable for road users.
“Edo State government under the leadership of Senator Monday Okpebholo is very much alive to its responsibility, ensuring it contends with developmental challenges confronting the state, both emerging and inherited ones.
“Of critical reference is the issue of roads. If we had an opportunity like the previous government of doing credible, quality and durable roads, we will not be complaining or lamenting now.
“A lot of these roads within the Benin metropolis were actually rehabilitated and repaired during the previous government under Governor Godwin Obaseki,” he said.
Afegbua frowned at the criticism by Obaseki’s foot soldiers, noting that the decay being experienced now is suggestive that the immediate past administration did a bad job.
“The level of road decay experienced now is that the roads then were quantity not quality jobs.
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“In the midst of the bad road, we did assessment of the GRA, Iyekogba Estate, Irhirhi and Okoroma Roads and the roads were purported to have been done by the Obaseki led administration.
“If you go there now, the roads are full of potholes and decayed infrastructure. One begins to wonder what the celebration was about? Roads were supposed to spend a minimum of 10 years and a maximum 30 years.
“I am making records of these roads because we are being criticized on social media and they wonder what we are doing?” he asked.
