Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has urged the contractor and Warri/Uvwie Development Agency to fast track work on flood control project in the area.
The State Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, made this known while briefing newsmen on some of the decisions reached at the State Executive Council meeting presided over by the governor in Asaba on Tuesday.
Aniagwu said that the government approved a number of road projects amongst others in line with its promise to continue to work till the end of the administration.
He said that the completion of the storm water drainage in the Warri area had become necessary to enable the construction and rehabilitation of roads that were in dire need of construction.
“A number of persons did not understand why we have not constructed some of the roads in Warri and its environs and we have tried to explain this many times.
“This is because flood will end up destroying the roads and possibly ravage all the homes along that channel.
“That is why we are investing huge sum of money to enable us control the flood in Warri and its environs by constructing the storm water drainage channel.
“We have explained this before now that because a number of these areas are heavily built and individuals over the years built on water ways,” he said.
