Mbah Making Waves, Contractors Feel Safe In Enugu – National Assembly

The Joint National Assembly (NASS) Committee connected Works, which comprises the Senate and House of Representatives, has commended the transformations witnessed successful Enugu State nether Governor Peter Mbah’s leadership, saying the governor’s support standing was precocious some nationally and locally.

This was adjacent arsenic Governor Mbah made a lawsuit for much accommodation of Enugu State successful the 2026 fund and greater velocity successful the ongoing national roadworthy projects connecting the state.

The squad lead, and Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee connected Works was Honourable Akin Alabi, who conveyed the commendations during a moving sojourn to Governor Mbah astatine Government House, Enugu, connected the sidelines of its oversight circuit of national authorities roadworthy projects successful Enugu State astatine the weekend.

He said: “While checking retired these projects, these contractors kept saying, without asking oregon prompting them, the Governor has been precise helpful.

“Security-wise, they consciousness precise harmless and astatine home, and they said you person approved their close of passage. We cognize that if a politician wants to frustrate a national authorities task successful his state, helium volition frustrate it.

“But arsenic a politician that cares for his people, you are not frustrating these projects; you are making them spell connected smoothly, and everyplace this Committee goes, we volition proceed to sing praise. We volition sing your praise to the level of the House of Representatives, the level of the Senate; everyplace we get the opportunity.”

“We besides did a tiny sampling astatine the edifice wherever we stayed and different places. I americium blessed to archer you that your support standing is high. It is not conscionable success, it is more. I anticipation you proceed to person the involvement of the radical of Enugu State astatine heart.

“Enugu State is going higher and looking amended and better. For the 2 years you person been the governor, Enugu has moved up and forward. I anticipation you proceed to enactment progressively connected the progressive broadside of things.”

He vowed the Committee’s committedness to ensuring that national roadworthy contractors delivered worth for money.

Speaking, portion calling for speed, Mbah besides pressed for peculiar attraction to Enugu State, fixed its spot successful Nigeria’s assemblage and post-colonial history.

He said his medication was committed to roadworthy improvement and making beingness easier for national contractors done indispensable intervention, fixed the spot of roads successful increasing the authorities from a $4.4bn to $30bn system successful the adjacent six years.

“For us, we recognize the worth of roads. We cannot speech astir increasing our system exponentially without providing roadworthy infrastructure due to the fact that the roads link the market, the people, and industry, and springiness the radical the means to unrecorded successful comfortableness and dignity.

“We instrumentality roadworthy infrastructure earnestly present and cannot bash that successful isolation. This committee is indispensable due to the fact that we indispensable cooperate with the national government.

“On our part, we are doing our roads without exception. We deliberation it is simply a humble happening for radical to thrust connected a paved road. Our people is to guarantee that each our streets are paved.

“Without sounding ungrateful, we privation to commend the national authorities due to the fact that they are doing immoderate roads successful our state, but we conscionable privation to inquire that you get the contractors to summation their gait of work.

“There are besides different interventions they person done. The lone occupation again is getting to the Makurdi to Enugu Expressway. The 1 they are doing is slow, and we anticipation they tin fast-track that Onitsha-Enugu Express Road, too. There are a mates of interventions, but I deliberation it’s conscionable the pace, and we volition beryllium relying connected you to bash the close thing.

“We are ever consenting and acceptable to assistance wherever determination has been obstruction successful the rights of mode and compensation, and speech to whoever is affected truthful that the contractors volition not person immoderate excuse for enactment to dilatory down,” helium concluded.

Meanwhile, the Senate Minority Whip, Senator Osita Ngwu, and the Member representing Igbo-Eze North/Udenu Federal Constituency, Hon Dennis Agbo, were besides present.