The Cross River State Road
Maintenance Agency has commenced the rehabilitation of bad portions of
road along the 12 kilometer carnival routes and other areas within
Calabar metropolis.
Mr Oqua Edet-Oqua, Director General of the Agency, disclosed this on Thursday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar.
He said that the agency embarked on the repairs because of the importance of the routes to the carnival.
According
to him, the agency usually carries out repairs of potholes within the
state metropolis every December to make the roads motorable and fit for
the street dance.
“If you drive along
the carnival routes and other major roads in the metropolis, you will
agree with me that they have actually started work.”
“Some of the potholes have been marked while others were applied stone base and are waiting for the pouring of asphalt.”
“Between
now and the early part of December, we are hoping to complete the
entire work. We are also working on other parts of the state because we
believe that the yuletide season in Calabar is of most importance to
us.”
“I am giving you my
assurance that the roads along the carnival routes will be ready for use
in due course and the carnival participants will have a better road to
dance on,’’ he said.
He explained
that the maintenance and rehabilitation of major roads, especially the
ones on the carnival routes had become a routine activity of the agency
every December.
“It is common
knowledge in Cross River that before the carnival, all the roads are
given attention and we will try to ensure that everywhere is clean
before the main event,’’ he said.
A
NAN Correspondent, who visited Marian road, IBB way, Mary Slessor and
MCC road which are along the carnival routes, observed that the pot
holes were all marked for repairs.
NAN reports that heaps of laterite were also dropped at major points along the routes for the rehabilitation works.