28 Aug Senate President’s Aide Lauds FG, Ndoma-Egba over Multi -Million Naira Dam Project
Mr Victor Abang, the Special Assistant, Public Affairs, Office of the President of the Senate, has commended the Federal Government and Senate Leader, Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba for the sitting of a dam project in his community.
Abang made the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kakwagom, Cross River, on Friday.
Abang was part of the reception organised by the community for Ndoma-Egba, who was on an inspection visit to his constituency projects in Cross River Central constituency.
Ndoma-Egba attracted the 140-hectare Bunyia/ Akaton\Dam (Irruan Dam) to Irruan, a rural community in Cross River.
Abang said that the N747.9m dam project, with
the capacity for hydro-electric power generation, would touch lives in Boki Local Government rural communities of Cross River and its environs upon completion.
“I am from Boki and have been privileged to see these projects on paper; but this, to us ,is very revealing and an eye opener and had gone further to douse the rumour and lies before now.
“Principally the job of the legislator is to make laws but with Ndoma-Egba, we have seen that he is doing even more than some people who are in the executive.
“He uses his position as senate leader to attract lots of benefit to our people, Abang said.
In a separate interview with NAN, Mr Solomon Yakubu, who also supervises the dam project at Irruan said that the total land area covered by the project was 140 hectares.
He said that 45 per cent of the work had been completed while major work still needs to be done on the concrete compartment and the river crossing, he said that the contract sum as at 2008 was N747.9 million and expressed the hope that the project would be completed this year.
Ndoma-Egba, who was elated at the level of work done, also told NAN that he was optimistic that the project would be completed on time to serve purposes meant.
“Ours is to do everything humanly possible to ensure that the project is funded and hope that we should be able to complete the project this year, so that the people of the catchment community can begin to derive the benefits for which the project is intended. “This is one of my biggest projects apart from the major roads like the trans-African Highway, the Calabar-Oban-Nsan roads.”
He described the dam as a regional project that would serve a cluster of communities. (NAN)
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