Samuel Onuigbo, a member representing the South-East on the governing board of the North-East Development Commission (NEDC), has commended the Federal Government for the progress in the Umuahia-Ikwuano-Ikot Ekpene Road reconstruction project.

Mr Onuigbo gave the commendation during an interactive session with journalists in Umuahia on Sunday.

He said the government “deserved recognition and commendation for maintaining an admirable momentum in ensuring that its projects were executed.”

Mr Onuigbo, a former member representing Ikwuano/Umuahia North/Umuahia South federal constituency, Abia, expressed satisfaction with the progress reports of the projects he facilitated.

He said, “The Umuahia-Ikwuano-Ikot Ekpene federal road that I facilitated is ongoing at a very good pace. The road project from Achingali through Umunwawa to Ubakala is also ongoing.

“They are even constructing a bridge across Imo River, and these were things that were destroyed during the Civil War. That is why I am saying politics and electioneering are over, and this President Bola Tinubu-led government deserves commendation because these are projects awarded under President Muhammad Buhari.”

Mr Onuigbo, the NEDC Committee Chairman for Security, Climate Change, and Special Interventions, expressed gratitude to the federal government and Governor Alex Otti for their commitments to building a federal secretariat in Umuahia.

The chieftain of the All Progressives Congress specifically praised Otti for providing quality leadership and compensating the secretariat’s host community for economic crops.

“It was the same compensation that I continued to ask the previous administration for over four years, but they failed to do so.

“In fact, that was what frustrated the federal government from commencing that work,” he said.