💥ONN Aba 22/05/2024
You must have heard Abia opposition voices who abandon Port Harcourt Road, even after World Bank released funds for the construction screaming about Julius Berger using N30b to construct the road.
Well, on face value, the amount sounds outrageous, but when you get to the minimal breakdown of the activities we're witnessing at Port Harcourt Road Aba, you will see Julius Berger is Julius Berger.
If you look at the quality work Julius Berger is doing in their gutters in Port Harcourt Road aba. You will see why 99 percent of governors avoid contracting them. This company never compromise on quality, not in an inch. They will dig the ground, take the soil to lab, know the type of sand to use and pore in the space, then apply concrete, before they will start constructing their gutters.
So, when people who are used to offering people low quality jobs with construction companies that agree to share the contract funds with them, start screaming about the amount agreed with Julius Berger, just pity them.
Every government that came to use state funds through contracts to settle politicians and enrich themselves will not look for Julius Berger. They will look for cheaper companies who will deliver low quality jobs, so that they can get cut back and lesser quality of construction works done, and reward the roads in 1 year time. Look at the Factory road, Aba-Owerri road and Abayi roads. Under the last regime, how many times were they worked on?
There's no single year you don't see one spot falling apart and causing traffic jam. They allow the road that falls apart to expand so that they will award another contract and keep on sharing public funds, while the gullible will think they're working.
There's a principal cementing compound called calcium aluminate (CaO · Al2O3).
If you use it in mixing cement in construction the mixture will help
high-alumina cement gain a high proportion of its ultimate strength within 24 hours and has a high resistance to chemical attack. It also can be used in refractory linings for furnaces. This material is extremely expensive. That's what Julius Berger and GraneBurg are using in cement mixture and tailing of roads.
If you notice during the last administration when they pour concrete on any place they will tell you to wait for minimum 10 days or 2 weeks before movement on anything else done on top of the construction. But when Julius Berger or GraneBurg pours a concrete within 2 days the place is open for use.
Using this calcium aluminate (CaO. Al203) on road construction will skyrocket the cost of construction, but you will discover that in the next 30 to 50 years Port Harcourt Road will still be very solid.
The governor Alex Otti insisted on this standard because he is aware that the entire length of Port Harcourt Road is where you get dealers on heavy duty machines, heavy duty generators and other oil, construction and electrical engineering dealers.
You can imagine using the type of quality road that was used at Faulks road, where hot water from women roasting corns was destroying the roads. Imagine using the same quality at Port Harcourt Road with all these heavy duty machines using the road.
Once you construct Port Harcourt Road all the imported containers from Port Harcourt seaport coming into Aba in their thousands are going to start using that road. You're not going to do such a work that in the next 5 years the entire stretch of the road must have collapsed again.
Go to Port Harcourt Road and see where Julius Berger is performing and you will see our N30b being buried on the ground to give us a highly top quality road. If you visit Port Harcourt Road you will feel proud that you're from Abia State. You cannot help but fall in love with Alex Otti.
If you visit Port Harcourt you will wonder if this is the same place that the last government battled with such ineptitude for 6 solid years, and they finally abandoned it in such a shameful disastrous state that if you train your pigs there, the pigs will die because of how dirty the environment was.
I wonder what someone will tell the community, the business people and the landlords and tenants living along that axis in 2027. Please, for security reasons no other candidates should dare to visit there because it might turn out into something else when they start stoning the person.
In 100 years to come the community, landlords, business owners and tenants of Port Harcourt Road based on the story they're told, will still daily go down on their knees in their morning devotion saying, "Thank God Alex Otti was here" the way after 30 year plus the people of Abia and Imo are still thanking God for sending us Dee Mbakwe.
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