The 20 kilometer road recently constructed by Lafarge African Plc as been commissioned by the Governor of Cross River State Bassey Otu.

The cement manufacturing company started the road construction in 2010 as an evacuation corridor that spans from Mfamosing, its operational base through Abiati, Etamkpini, and terminates at Odukpani junction by the Ayade’s Flyover.

Otu commenced Lafarge for living up to its Corporate Social Responsibility.

He said the 20-kilometre evacuation road would reduce traffic from the town for Lafarge trucks and other commuters.

He said, “Development comes with implications. When you have a road, the good people will use it and the bad people will also try to use it.”

Otu assured that security presence would be deployed to forestall any possible nefarious activities.

He added, “I want to give you every assurance that the security agencies we have here are up and doing, I am not sure you will have issues on this road, particularly now that the security of the area has been highlighted.

“I will give everybody assurance both the customers and the trucks that would ply the road that everybody would be safe.

“For Cross River government, I want to give you every assurance that we will continue to give you the enablement, strength, proper and enabling environment for you to expand and succeed.”

The governor used the occasion to call on other corporate organisations to emulate Lafarge’s gesture to complement the government’s infrastructural development to help society at large.

“It would have been difficult to have about 200 trucks passing through the town, driving out, amid stress and accident.

“What you have done has taken this whole traffic completely out of town and straight to the road where they are actually looking to take things out of the state. I commend you and wish that other Corporate bodies would emulate Lafarge,” he concluded.