Resident of Ifite-Awka in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra state have sent a Save-our-soul Messages to the Governor of Anambra state, Wlllie Obiano to intervene in their abandoned road rehabilitation project.
Resident
of Ifite-Awka in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra state have sent a
Save-our-soul Messages to the Governor of Anambra state, Willie Obiano to
intervene in their abandoned road rehabilitation project.
They
urged the government to speedily intervene before rains set in fully where the
road wiould become impassable.
Correspondent Bamidele Ajayi sought the
opinion of students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka and residents of Ifite-Awka who use that part
of the road and filed in this report .
Speaking
with our correspondent, the people lamented that the construction of gutter
that was embarked upon by the state government sometime last year was abandoned
last two months, with the project contractor disappeared, leaving the bad
portion of less than half a kilometer of the road on attended.
The
residents however called on Governor Willie Obiano to intervene and complete
the road project before it is turned to
a small gully erosion.
Requesting
that the people would soon be cut-off from accessing the state capital which is
a ten minutes drive from Ifite-Awka, stating further that most students of Nnamdi
Azikiwe University residence in that area have resulted to using another less
deplorable road to access the federal university cited meters away from that
bad portion of the road.
Correspondent
reports that most residents of the area are groaning over the delay in the
completion of the road, while students and staff of the Nnamdi Azikiwe
University Awka, have resorted to use another route via the Enugu-Onitsha
Express way to access the school through the federal institution’s second gate
to avoid plying through that bad portion of Ifite-Awka, Unizik Road Awka.
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