Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has said that failure of the Federal Government to pay N60 billion counterpart funding is responsible for the delay in completion of the N120 Billion Bonny-Bodo road.
Wike said this at the sendoff ceremony of former NLNG managing director, Tony Attah, in Port Harcourt on Saturday.
He explained that every fund expended so far on the Bonny-Bodo road project had been provided by the NLNG.
He said since the N60 Billion counterpart fund for the Bonny-Bodo road will be paid from the federation account, it will be wrong for the federal government to continue to claim glory for the funding of the project with the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG.
“The Bonny-Bodo road is not funded between the Federal Government and NLNG. I don’t agree. With due respect, it is funded between NLNG, all the states of the federation and the Federal Government,” he said.
“If this country is a country that all of us belong to and all of us mean well for ourselves, that is one project that ought to have been completed by now, because of the economic interest that will benefit all of us,” Wike added.
