Determined to maintain it urban renewal programme, the Benue State government is beaming its searchlight on the North Bank area of Makurdi metropolis in order to give it a new lease of life.
Commissioner for Works, Housing and Transport, Dr. Eugine Aliegba, who said this in a chat in Makurdi, noted that the North Bank area was an integral part of the metropolis, hence the need to make it decent to enable the inhabitants enjoy all the basic and social amenities in the state capital.
He stressed that some of the major roads, streets and avenues in the area would be constructed and rehabilitated to make movement and transportation effective and easy.
The commissioner noted that with the signing into law of the 2010 Budget by Governor Gabriel Suswam, the administration was ready to provide the critical and social infrastructure that would guarantee rapid development and create conducive business climate for the people to improve their living standards.
Aliegba also said 2010 was critical to the Suswam administration as it had become more focused on the completion of all ongoing projects initiated by the present administration across the state, maintaining that Governor Suswam was determined to create a new record of development and transformation in the state for posterity. 
On the poor state of Onitsha Street in Wurukum area of the state capital, the commissioner explained that the drainage system would soon be constructed on both sides of the street for effective channelisation of water in the area to avoid flooding when the rains set in and urged Benue people to show understanding and be patient with the state government to enable it implement fully its policies and programmes aimed at transforming the state for the better.
He emphasized the need to protect government properties, and challenged communities where such projects are established to guide them jealously, warning that any community that failed to protect government property in their area and allowed unpatriotic people to vandalized them would have itself to be blame as the era of “it is government property” was over.

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