The Federal Government has commissioned some projects and inspected others in the Edo-North Senatorial District of Edo state.
The FG through the Minister of State, Budget and National Planning, Clem Agba, confirmed that about 60 Federal Government projects are sited in Edo State under the Economic Sustainability Plan.
Some of the projects completed and inaugurated by the minister include 1.5km Mogbe-Edegbe Road, 4.5km Agenebode-Unedeger Road, 2.5km Ekiwosor-Ivikhue Road, Imukena Road, Installation of 500 KVA transformer in Agenebode, an open stalls market and solar street lights.
The minister also inspected the construction of 31km Uzanu-Ajaokuta Road in Kogi, 21.5 km Uzanu-Okpekpe Road, 6km Ogeneda-Ugochi Road, 10km Egbegeri-Ate and Somorika Roads.
Others are Uzanu mini market, Uzanu divisional police station, Uzanu mini stadium, Uzanu internal Roads and the construction of an 80-bed seater with two theatres and doctors’ quarters of Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Uzanu Annex of the state
The minister said the inauguration of the projects in the rural area is due to the 60 per cent post-harvest loss by farmers and to reduce multidimensional poverty in rural areas.
Agba said that the policies of the President Muhammadu Buhari are intended to significantly reduce the 130 million multifacetedly impoverished Nigerians.
He said, “We have seen some write up on social media where they said the president has done nothing in Edo by those who have done nothing but sign MOUs.
“But, seeing as they say is believing, We have not been making a lot of noise because we are empty vessels.
“The president has done very well for Edo State. You saw a bridge today at Uzanu and we have a modern bridge we facilitated in the economic sustainability plan,” Agba said.