Stakeholders of Ikwuano/Umuahia federal constituency have urged the federal government to ignore the requests by some highly placed persons to remove the Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene Road from the funding basket of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL).
The stakeholders including traditional rulers and political leaders made the call at a meeting held in Umuahia, during which the progress of work on the 51 kilometre Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene federal road was extensively reviewed.
They were unanimous that there has been remarkable progress in the rehabilitation of the very strategic road since the NNPCL added it to the road projects it is funding under the road infrastructure tax credit(RITC) scheme.
While pleading with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to allow the road to remain under the funding of NNPCL, the stakeholders also lauded Mr. President for his interest in seeing to the completion of the Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene Road.