over a fatal accident at the Indoroma-Aleto bridge axis of East-West road, Eleme on the ongoing rehabilitation of the East-West road section III, Eleme Junction-Onne Port in Rivers state.
Deeming the criticism as unfair, Umahi, in a statement on Thursday, May 2, by his spokesman, Uchenna Orji, described the remarks by Yamaabana as darkening counsel without knowledge, wrong and ungrateful, particularly given the threat to drag the government and construction company to the International Criminal Court for negligence.
He said: “Mr. President, when he came on board, he saw how terrible this road was. And he directed that work should be started. Not as usual, but that the road should be redesigned. “And so, because the soil is bad, we are digging about one meter. We are filling with lumps about half a meter. We are filling with sharp sand about half a meter. We are with stones, eight inches. We are putting four inches, another stone base mixed with 5% cement. And then we are now putting eight inches of reinforced concrete pavement.“The idea of Mr. President is that this should last for a minimum of 100 years, considering the load that it’s carrying”.