By Throble K. Suah
Public Works Minister Ruth Coker-Collins says the Coca Cola Factory to ELWA corridor is still a serious challenge for the project.
“That road will be completed in December instead of this July as we projected and that has to do with the challenges we are facing with the marketers. They do not want to leave the red-light market but the state security shall handle that,” Coker-Collins noted.
According to her, aside from the challenge that is being handled by the state security, the 400 kilometers of roads across the country with funding for from developmental partners is well on course.
Addressing the Information Ministry weekly media briefing yesterday in Monrovia, Public Works Minister, Ruth Coker-Collins, said government’s priority now is accelerating its developmental projects mainly roads and infrastructural construction.
She said, among many things, that the funding for the over 400 kilometers of roads included but not limited to from Tappita to Toe Town, Town Toe to Zwedru and other parts of the country.
She did not state the amount covering the construction of these roads across the country, notwithstanding, Coker-Collins expressed optimism about the ongoing road projects which are intended for the growth of the country’s economy.
For the construction of over path bridges at Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Ministerial Complex and that of the Samuel Kanyon Doe’s Boulevard in Paynesville, the minister designs of the bridges have been completed and engineers are expected in the country next year.
She said as for the Bali Island project, it is on course as engineers responsible for the project will sooner or later begin work mainly with roads leading to the Island first before transferring materials.
Meanwhile, the ministry is reported to have secured and brought into the country 42 pieces of earthmoving equipment which will be used to carry out public works instead of depending on rented equipment vendors.
