By Solomon T. Gaye
/NIMBA
Pavement on the Saclepea-Tappita Highway project is in high gear in Nimba County.
Speaking in Zuolay, Gertrude Leabah, the chair lady for thew women’s Korkaseh Group, said the pavement of the Saclepea-Tappita Highway is a welcoming news for many of the residents and marketers respectively.
According to the women’s chair, Leabah, since the pavement of Saclepea to Volay Town, transportation has dropped from Tappita to Gompa on a vehicle or motorbike.
“We the marketers are very happy that our local commodities are now on the market in Tappita, Gompa, and Monrovia,” the women’s chair lady stated.
Speaking on behalf of chiefs in the project area, Paramount chief Myers Gblah, of Wehbeh Chiefdom, thanked the government for the pavement of Saclepea-Tappita Highway.
“We are now moving freely from Kpaytuo to Graie Town without sleeping in the mud,” Paramount chief Gblah pointed out.
The Saclepea-Tappita Highway project is in two phases; CRSG road building engineers are paving the road from the Saclepea bridge and to Miller Town near Tappita.
“The other machines along with the dump trucks are busy clearing the road side and hauling rocks for the pavement of the road,” the Chinese engineers revealed through an English interpreter.
The CRSG Chinese engineer in charge of the road supervision refused to speak and referred the paper to the Public Works engineer’s consultant working with the company.
When the engineer’s consultant, Fonati Gbarbo, was contacted, he said works have gone almost 45 precent into completion.
“Base course layer has gone 43.83 km, binder course has gone up to 43.82 km, and wearing course layer has gone to 34.5 km, that means works is going on well,” engineer Gbarbo pointed out.
An attempt to contact the MPW assigned resident engineer in Nimba, Anthony Siaway via mobile phone proved futile as his phone was reportedly off up to press time.
