The Continuous Shame Of The Portharcourt-Owerri Road
Travelling out of the Garden City of Portharcourt is a journey of comfort and relaxation, as one starts off from the city centre. That sense of assurance continues at least, till after Elele.
But making an entrance into the border town of Umuagwo, the connector of the federal road to Imo state, the sense of assurance dissipates, as the story of the road turns horrendous.
That section of the road is like a forgotten section, the entirety of the border axis to the leading of the Imo State Polytechnic is in grave shamble. The road, beyond potholes, is yanked off, gullied and miry. Indeed that section is cut off; and this situation has been left unattended to for donkey years.
This strongly betrays the shame of our nation.
On the 20th of October, while plying this nauseous route, I saw two trucks strewn on the ground, lying flat. They fell because of the deplorable nature of the road. Causing gridlock and inconvenience. And more are liable to fall, going by the double tragedy of the road and the fallen blockades it has caused.
In the events of the 2015 elections, we were admonished by Rochas Okorocha, the Imo state governor of the need to vote in APC, having assured of a nice response of federal government presence if we join the central government. But ever since we joined, this section of the road has continued to be neglected.
If the centre has failed, what effort has the state government evinced to tackling this internal burden? Nothing as yet.
It was a state government, under Rotimi Amaechi, that saw the need, against futile waiting of the centre to fix its side of this federal road. But Imo seems to have a nonchalant government, that prefers just waiting.
What a shame!
But making an entrance into the border town of Umuagwo, the connector of the federal road to Imo state, the sense of assurance dissipates, as the story of the road turns horrendous.
That section of the road is like a forgotten section, the entirety of the border axis to the leading of the Imo State Polytechnic is in grave shamble. The road, beyond potholes, is yanked off, gullied and miry. Indeed that section is cut off; and this situation has been left unattended to for donkey years.
This strongly betrays the shame of our nation.
On the 20th of October, while plying this nauseous route, I saw two trucks strewn on the ground, lying flat. They fell because of the deplorable nature of the road. Causing gridlock and inconvenience. And more are liable to fall, going by the double tragedy of the road and the fallen blockades it has caused.
In the events of the 2015 elections, we were admonished by Rochas Okorocha, the Imo state governor of the need to vote in APC, having assured of a nice response of federal government presence if we join the central government. But ever since we joined, this section of the road has continued to be neglected.
If the centre has failed, what effort has the state government evinced to tackling this internal burden? Nothing as yet.
It was a state government, under Rotimi Amaechi, that saw the need, against futile waiting of the centre to fix its side of this federal road. But Imo seems to have a nonchalant government, that prefers just waiting.
What a shame!
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