BY MISGANAW ASNAKE
ADDIS ABABA- Some 77 percent of the construction of the Adwa Zero KM Mega Project is completed and activities have been carried out day and night, according to the project controller, who indicated the
project is set to be completed within a year.
Project Control Feleke Woldeyohannes (Eng.) told local media that consolidated efforts have been carried out to complete some part of the project for this year’s Adwa Victory Day, which is being celebrated on March 2, 2022.
As a memorial center For Ethiopia’s victory over the invading Italian forces, the facility is equipped with an ultramodern library, museum, meeting hall, bus and taxi terminal as well as a parking lot that accommodates 1000 cars at a time. The project also includes a fountain that will serve as the instrument to reinvigorate the spirit of Pan-Africanism, Feleke elaborated.
“The Adwa Project has bridges that will connect the facility with Addis Ababa Municipality and it is being constructed in the way to enshrine the spirit of patriotic forefathers and mothers among the current and future generations.”
Alelegn Tenaw, a laborer in the project, stated that the construction has been executed carefully, responsibly and without interruption. “Even though we were not physically present in the Battle of Adwa, we have built this project in the same spirit with our forefathers and mothers and have made every effort to make the facility inter-generational.
“I am happy working here and able to put my fingerprint in this iconic project.”
It was learned that the construction of the Adwa Zero KM Project consumes over 4.6 billion Birr.
The Ethiopian herald December 6/2022
