Abia Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu says his administration will partner with indeginous construction companies for infrastructural development in the State. The Governor stated this while receiving in audience the management team of Webster Global Ventures Limited led by the Director, New Busineses, Mr. Ken Gberegha who called on him at Government House, Umuahia. Governor Ikpeazu while noting that infrastructure is an enabler that drives Small and Medium Scale Enterprises and other economic policies of his administration said the State has the ideas but lacks the funds to prosecute numerous infrastructural projects. He appreciated the company for her interest in partnering his government assuring that within the next seven days, his administration would set up a team that would look into priority roads and other infrastructure in the State as well as their cost implications and furnish the company with necessary baseline information. He said the team would be drawn from the Ministries of Works and Land & Survey as well as the office of the Secretary to the State Government. The State chief executive disclosed that five to six floor buildings would be constructed at the old secretariate, Umuahia where he had earlier directed the Head of Service to relocation of the civil servants who work there. He said that his administration believes in quality infrastructure, hence all the roads he constructed within the first 100 days of his first term are without portholes. Earlier in his speech, the leader of the delegation and Director, New Busineses, Webster Global Ventures Limited, Mr. Ken Gberegha informed that the company said the indigenous company carries out projects in various area of physical infrastructure and works in collaboration with government technical staff in the MDAs to minimize cost. Mr. Gberegha, who said the team members came to introduce themselves to the Governorassured that the company will provide funds for projects which government would gradually pay back over a period of time and requested the State to partner them. The Secretary to the State Government, Barr. Chris Ezem, Deputy Chief of staff to the Governor, Chief Ukpai Agwu Ukpai and other aids of the Governor were present during the visit.
