1. Much of the ongoing rehabilitation and palliative works on several roads across the state are being done through direct labour...
2. The governor Dr. Alex C. Otti believes that the best way to empower engineers employed by the state is to take them to the fields where they will do real works instead of moving paper files in offices.
3. The Abia State Road Maintenance Agency which had been moribund for years is now revived with the supply of equipment and the return of their engineers to road maintenance jobs.
4. Many engineers long employed at the State Ministry of works have openly confessed that this is the first time they had been deployed to sites.
5. Those handling the road projects, whether contractors or staff of the ministry of works and its parastatals are required to source their labour and inputs from the local markets, that is, they can only go outside Abia for any procurement when the material cannot be sourced from the state.
6. What you are seeing is only a prelude to some major civil engineering projects that would be launched in all parts of the state in the weeks ahead.
7. All major civil engineering companies operating in the country have identified Abia as the next big market and are playing to get into the action....